World Food Books

Agenda Issue No. 6, August 1989
Edited by Juliana Engberg (John Nixon cover)

1989, English
Softcover (loose-leaf tabloid), 40 pages, 40 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Agenda / Parkville

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Issue No. 6, August 1989 of Melbourne's contemporary arts newspaper, Agenda, edited by the great artistic director, curator and writer, Juliana Engberg. An incredible issue with cover artwork by John Nixon, with heavily illustrated articles by contributors McKenzie Wark, Deb Ely, Jacqueline Riva, May Lam, Juliana Engberg, Nicholas Baume, Harriet Edquist, Virginia Trioli, Leon van Schaik, Stuart Koop, Stephen O'Connell, Andrew Hopkins, Alex Selenitsch, Anna Clabburn, James Hurley, covering Bill Henson, Chantal Akerman, Robin Boyd, Melbourne gallery Store 5, Wes Placek, Jon Campbell, the Andy Warhol Collection, Graeme Hare, Tolarno Gallery, Lisa Lewis, Australian Perspecta 1989, and much more. Published with the assistance of the great George Paton Gallery, Melbourne House, Melbourne University.

Very Good copy with light aging.

File under: John Nixon Bill Henson Chantal Akerman Robin Boyd Wes Placek Jon Campbell Andy Warhol Graeme Hare Lisa Lewis McKenzie Wark Deb Ely Jacqueline Riva May Lam Juliana Engberg Nicholas Baume Harriet Edquist Virginia Trioli Leon van Schaik Stuart Koop Stephen O'Connell Andrew Hopkins Alex Selenitsch Anna Clabburn James Hurley Agenda / Parkville Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Australian Photography Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

FILM IS: The International Free Cinema
by Stephen Dwoskin

1975 / 1985, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Overlook Press / New York

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First 1975 US edition (1985 print) of Stephen Dwoskin's important critical history of international independent and underground film-making, its pioneers and masters, and their creations, from the 1920s to the present (late 1970s), assessing the movements importance to the current status of film as art and entertainment. Published by Overlook Press.

Underground' film is finally emerging in terms of the public consciousness as an important and enduring contribution to the world of celluloid, both as entertainment and as an art form. The author, Stephen Dwoskin, is a young American independent filmmaker with personal experience in an expert knowledge of a creative area barely studied until this time. He has created in FILM IS an invaluable record of the pioneering cinematic statements that are at once peripheral and central to film today on an international scale. It is both culturally and sociologically true today that an increasing number of the painters and the poets have become filmmakers. Un-pressured by big business, free cinema has become a personal, creative expression for many men and women who often work in obscurity with small means indeed. Dwoskin's work presents the early history of the independent film from its beginning in the twenties to its phenomenal outburst in the sixties, written by an involved, perceptive critic. Through his own work and his contributions to the juries of international festivals, Dwoskin has a wide-ranging knowledge of the independent film from the U.S. to Britain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Over 700 films are discussed, many for the first time. Van der Beek, Refenstahl, Brakhage, Emshwiller, Ray and Jack Smith are only some of the experimental filmmakers mentioned in FILM IS, but Dwoskin refers forwards and backwards to the works of others, often better known— Bunuel, Cocteau, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Warhol. There is also a comprehensive index. FILM IS provides a unique and invaluable reference work for all those interested in the frontiers of film consciousness.

Stephen Dwoskin (1939—2012) was a major avant-garde filmmaker whose work was closely connected to the 'gaze theory' associated with Laura Mulvey; a significant disabled filmmaker – though he rejected being framed as such – and an activist for an alternative film culture, through such organizations as the London Film-Makers' Co-op and The Other Cinema. His films are held by the BFI and distributed by LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Very Good copy, light wear, ex-owner's name in inside front cover.

File under: Jack Smith Stan Brakhage Andy Warhol Leni Riefenstahl Stephen Dwoskin François Truffaut Rainer Werner Fassbinder Jean Cocteau The Cockettes Paul Sharits Jean-Luc Godard Maya Deren Jonas Mekas Robert Wiene Robert Frank Tiny Tim Ron Rice Robert Breer Carolee Schneemann Michael Snow Stan Vanderbeek Wim Wenders Kenneth Anger George Kuchar Mike Kuchar Frans Zwartjes Kurt Kren Peter Weibel Otto Muehl Limpe Fuchs Peter Gidal Peter Kubelka Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Bruce Connor Luis Buñuel Ed Emshwiller Reinosuke Kinugasa Taylor Mead Harry Smith David Larcher Bruce Baillie Alfredo Leonardi Valie Export Stephen Dwoskin The Overlook Press / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art Surrealism

Yaso No. 5
Special Feature : Corpse

1982/1992, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"Corpse" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, first published in 1982, then re-printed in 1992, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese that look at the theme of death and the dead in the arts, literature, occultism, ancient sciences, philosophy, mythology, poetry, film, crime, and much more. Features John Duncan, Tetsumi Kudo, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Masahisa Fukase, Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe Potts (LAFMS), Takashi Ishii, Rudolf II — Holy Roman Emperor, Akinari Ueda, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Burden, Paul Celan, Alain Resnais, Gilyak Amagasaki, Shusaku Arakawa, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Shuji Terayama, Andy Warhol, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, Kyoko Endoh, Princess Yongtai, Salvador Dalí, Ono no Komachi, Kiyoshi Kasai, Caravaggio, Throbbing Gristle, Takizawa Bakin, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Manson Family, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Wu Zetian, Genesis P-Orridge, Yusuke Nakahara, Ranpo Lagrange, Mitsusada Fukasaku, Nakai Hideo, Richard Wagner, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Chris Burden Alain Resnais Gilyak Amagasaki Shusaku Arakawa Andy Warhol Brian Wilson Kyoko Endoh John Duncan Tetsumi Kudo Cosey Fanni Tutti Joe Potts (LAFMS) Takashi Ishii Salvador Dali Caravaggio Throbbing Gristle Marcel Duchamp Masahisa Fukase Shuji Terayama Franz Kafka Guillaume Apollinaire Ono no Komachi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Akinari Ueda Kiyoshi Kasai Takizawa Bakin Paul Celan Yusuke Nakahara Fyodor Dostoevsky Ranpo Lagrange Mitsusada Fukasaku Nakai Hideo Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Film / Video Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Counterculture Eros Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Theory / Essay

The Uncanny
by Mike Kelley

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$550.00 - Out of stock

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First 1993 edition of one of the great art books, by one of the great artists. This provocative, copiously illustrated catalogue by renowned American artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published to accompany the exhibition curated by Kelley as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 5 - September 26, 1993, Kelley presents (like a photo scrapbook) an arresting mix of modern and contemporary artists alongside bizarre figurative, prosthesis, animatronic, and mannequin-related imagery throughout history. Artists included : Hans Bellmer, Robert Gober, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Nayland Blake, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Duane Hanson, Man Ray, Guillaume Bijl, Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Degas, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Broodthaers, Goya, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothea Lange, Thom Puckey, Charles Ray, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Laurie Simmons, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Thek, Mike Kelley himself, and many more. Includes Kelley's accompanying essay, "Playing with Dead Things". The exhibition took on mythical status and was re-staged in Liverpool in 2004. The Uncanny has become one of the most desired of Kelley's books.

Very Good copy with only light cover wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Robert Gober Tetsumi Kudo Zoe Leonard Paul McCarthy Nayland Blake Duane Hanson Edward Kienholz Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons John Miller Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Paul Thek Mike Kelley Laurie Simmons Guillaume Bijl Thom Puckey Dennis Oppenheim Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Dorothea Lange Yayoi Kusama Francisco Goya Edgar Degas Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Mike Kelley Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art Surrealism Theory / Essay

Studio Voice Vol. 58
September 1980 (Aquirax Uno)

1980, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 36.5 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ryuko Tsushin / Japan

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful early issue of Japan's Studio Voice magazine, with original cover artwork by Aquirax Uno, published in 1980 in the early over-sized, tabloid format established by Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. When it was first launched in 1976, Studio Voice was the Japanese edition of Warhol's Interview, bridging New York and Tokyo culture. The arts, music, fashion, photography, film, literature, model news, style news, reviews... The Japanese Interview, say no more!

Very Good copy, some cover/spine wear.

File under: Aquirax Uno Andy Warhol Ryuko Tsushin / Japan Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Fashion Film / Video Photography Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.

In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one's critical life as a whole.

File under: Hans Haacke Andy Warhol Polke Gerhard Richter Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Jack Smith Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Michael Asher Thomas Hirschhorn Gabriel Orozco Anselm Kiefer Yvonne Rainer Isa Genzken Jenny Holzer Dan Graham Martha Rosler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Hal Foster No Place Press / US Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Pop Art

Dorothy Dean — Who Are You Dorothy Dean?

2024, English / French
Softcover, 296 pages, 13 x 19.6 cm
Published by Éditions 1989 / Paris

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The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean, one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Edited by Anaïs Ngbanzo, this second release from Éditions 1989 features Dorothy Dean's unpublished writing and selected correspondence with Edie Sedgwick, Rene Ricard, and Taylor Mead, among other friends and artists. This volume also includes Dean's transcendent script of an unrealized film starring Factory actor, Ondine.

Lyrical, humorous, political, and brutally honest, Who Are You Dorothy Dean? is a tribute to one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday.

Dorothy Dean (1932-1987) was an African American writer and actress. She entered the 1960s New York underground scene and quickly became one of its key, if overlooked, figures, starring in six of Andy Warhol's films and inspiring the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and Robert Creeley. Presumably the first woman ever hired as fact-checker at The New Yorker, Dean held brief editorial and proofreading positions at publications such as Vogue before launching her very own bulletin of film reviews, the All-Lavender Cinema Courier, in 1976.

Texts by Dorothy Dean, Edie Sedgwick, Robert Creeley, Gerard Malanga, Rene Ricard, Taylor Mead, et al. Translated from the English (American) by Rachel Valinsky. Graphic design: Rick Myers.

File under: Robert Mapplethorpe Andy Warhol Dorothy Dean Gerard Malanga Robert Creeley Dorothy Dean Edie Sedgwick Gerard Malanga Rene Ricard Taylor Mead Éditions 1989 / Paris Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Film / Video

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

1974, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 21 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Environments and Happenings by painter and poet Adrian Henri, published by Thames & Hudson in 1974, forms one of the first mainstream book surveys to trace the phenomenon of environmental/performative/total living artworks that became prevalent in the 1960s/70s. This historical study is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many international works from Fluxus to Zero to Dolle Mina to Nouveau Réalisme to Provo to Gutai to The Situationists and much more. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Clarence Schmidt, Ray Johnson, Öyvind Fahlström, Paul Thek, Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Hans Haacke, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Guerllia Art Action Group, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Peter Kuttner, Jackson Pollock, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Situationist International, Ferdinand Kriwet, Klaus Rinke, Duane Hanson, A-Yo, Meret Oppenheim, Space Structure Workshop, Ferdinand Cheval, Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), Robert Smithson, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan Wewerka, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Vladimir Tatlin, Provo, Barry Flanagan, Andy Warhol, Meredith Monk, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Ed Keinholz, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Gilardi, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, James Rosenquist, Red Grooms, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Eduardo Paolozzi, and many many more. Includes reproductions of performance scripts, partial chronology, etc.

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

File under: Guerilla Art Action Group Joseph Beuys Clarence Schmidt Ray Johnson Öyvind Fahlström Paul Thek Yves Klein Hans Haacke Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Guerllia Art Action Group Daniel Spoerri Wolf Vostell Gustav Metzger Peter Kuttner Jackson Pollock Alison Knowles Dick Higgins Robert Morris Situationist International Ferdinand Kriwet Klaus Rinke Duane Hanson A-Yo Meret Oppenheim Space Structure Workshop Ferdinand Cheval Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) Robert Smithson Jeff Nuttall Stefan Wewerka Christo Dennis Oppenheim Vladimir Tatlin Provo Barry Flanagan Andy Warhol Meredith Monk Atsuko Tanaka Kazuo Shiraga Ed Keinholz Yayoi Kusama Piero Gilardi Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely Claes Oldenburg Les Levine James Rosenquist Red Grooms Tom Wesselmann George Segal Eduardo Paolozzi Allan Kaprow Adrian Henri Thames and Hudson / London Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Dada Counterculture Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music

Unfinished
Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff

2016, English
Hardcover, 336 pages, 27 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York

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This groundbreaking, award-winning book, long out-of-print, presents a multidisciplinary analysis that illuminates the making, meaning, and reception of the unfinished in art, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, at The Met, New York, March18—September 4, 2016. Edited by Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff with further essays by Carmen C. Bambach, Thomas Beard, David Bomford, David Blayney Brown, Nicholas Cullinan, Michael Gallagher, Asher Ethan Miller, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Susan Stewart, and Nico Van Hout.

This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term "unfinished" in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cezanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory which can be traced back to the first century has had on modern and contemporary art. The book explores the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional, experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Very Good copy, only light wear/marks to boards.

File under: Rembrandt J. M. W. Turner Paul Cézanne Brice Marden Robert Gober Hanne Darboven Sol LeWitt Henry Fuseli James Abbott McNeill Whistler Jasper Johns Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Nicolas Poussin Edvard Munch Vija Celmins Felix González-Torres Cady Noland Robert Smithson Elizabeth Peyton Maria Lassnig Gustave Courbet Édouard Manet Alice Neel Alberto Giacometti Edgar Degas Janine Antoni Lygia Clark Jackson Pollock Robert Rauschenberg Titian Diego Velázquez Camille Corot Théodore Géricault Jacques-Louis David Piet Mondrian Kiki Picasso Piero Manzoni Barnett Newman Robert Morris Yayoi Kusama Kenneth Anger Sergei Eisenstein Hollis Frampton Helio Oiticica Hélio Oiticica Kerry James Marshall George Brecht Henri Matisse Vincent van Gogh Alina Szapocznikow Auguste Rodin Bruce Nauman Andy Warhol Hans Richter Rebecca Warren Luc Tuymans Marlene Dumas Honoré Daumier Kelly Baum Andrea Bayer and Sheena Wagstaff Carmen C. Bambach Thomas Beard David Bomford David Blayney Brown Nicholas Cullinan Michael Gallagher Asher Ethan Miller Nadine M. Orenstein Diana Widmaier Picasso Susan Stewart Nico Van Hout The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Visual Message 1 & 2

1978 / 1979, Japanese
Softcover, 127 pages + 144 pages, 22.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Visual Message / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First (1978) and second (1979) issues of Visual Message, the "comprehensive magazine of the visual age", published in Japan for a short period at the end of the 1970s. This explosive inaugural issue, co-edited by graphic designers Ikko Tanaka and Kazuya Uegami, and copywriter Shinya Nishimura and themed "Visual Scandal" is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Saito, Harumi Yamaguchi, Masamichi Oikawa, Eiko Ishioka, Shigeo Fukuda, Tomi Ungerer, Masayuki Kurokawa, SITE, Tsunehisa Kimura, Tenmei Kano, Raymond Savignac, Katsumi Asaba, Ken Mori, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Folon, Asai Shinpei, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Herb Lubalin, Osamu Nagahama, M.C. Escher, Shiro Tatsumi, Hiroki Hayashi, Masayoshi Nakajo, Hiroshi Yoda, Hipgnosis, and many more.

Second 1979 issue of Visual Message is structured around the themes "Before/After" and "Scale" and again is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Philip Johnson, Hideo Yamashita, Seiji Takada, Takahisa Kamijō, Haruo Takino, Takenobu Igarashi, Akira Yokoyama, Hisaki Hiramatsu, Takamichi Ito, Tomoya Nakano, Shōji Yamagishi, and many more.

V.M. 1. Good copy. Some cover/spine wear/creases/small closed tear to cover edge.
V.M. 2. Very Good copy. Light general wear, bumping.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Masao Saito Harumi Yamaguchi Masamichi Oikawa Eiko Ishioka Shigeo Fukuda Tomi Ungerer Masayuki Kurokawa SITE Tsunehisa Kimura Tenmei Kano Raymond Savignac Katsumi Asaba Ken Mori Andy Warhol Jean-Michel Folon Asai Shinpei Marcel Duchamp Rene Magritte Herb Lubalin Osamu Nagahama M.C. Escher Shiro Tatsumi Hiroki Hayashi Masayoshi Nakajo Hiroshi Yoda Hipgnosis Philip Johnson Hideo Yamashita Seiji Takada Takahisa Kamijō Haruo Takino Takenobu Igarashi Akira Yokoyama Hisaki Hiramatsu Takamichi Ito Tomoya Nakano Shōji Yamagishi Visual Message / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Photography Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Eros

Air Guitar : Essays on Art & Democracy
by David Hickey

1997, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Art issues Press / Los Angeles

$40.00 - In stock -

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"Compared to enjoying Dave Hickey—who writes like a Raymond Chandler blessed with Giovanni Morelli's eye—reading any other art critic (and I mean any other art critic) is like doing your taxes'." — Peter Plagens

David Hickey (1938—2021), nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism" and "The Enfant Terrible of Art Criticism", was a prolific American art critic and professor who wrote for many American publications including Artforum, Art in America, frieze, Parkett, Interview, The London Review of Books, ARTnews, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Nest, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many more.

Air Guitar is Dave Hickey's "memoir without tears"—23 essays or "love songs", a journey through the vernacular cultural landscape of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Looking back from the vantage-point of his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, Hickey speculates on everything from jazz and rock-and-roll to basketball and professional wrestling—from magic and psychedelia to gambling and the culture of "little stores"—from automotive design to series television to Saturday-morning cartoons. The emphasis in these 23 essays is on the way the arts function in the drift of everyday life, outside the venues of official culture, and on singular "lives in the arts," lived outside those venues, with meditations on the careers of Liberace, Hank Williams, Chet Baker, Andy Warhol, Johnny Mercer, Norman Rockwell, magicians Siegfried & Roy, and wrestler Lady Godiva. Underlying Hickey's writing is an abiding belief that cultural life in a democracy can (and occasionally does) function in a democratic manner, sustained by the whims of affection and the commerce of opinion.

File under: Andy Warhol Dave Hickey Art issues Press / Los Angeles Art Theory / Essay Sound / Music

Writing As Sculpture, 1978—1987
by Louwrien Wijers (w. Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Dalai Lama, Robert Filliou...)

1996, English
Softcover (stiff french-folds), 280 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Academy Editions / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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"It was Joseph Beuys who made us think of thinking as sculpture. It was Robert Filliou who said that invention replaced composition and that this broke down the barriers between the arts. I found working with metal unique, I loved the materials and the tools. But vast sculpture that worked with the mental ability of living people seemed much more of a timely thing to me. That was 1977. I changed from metal sculpture to mental sculpture."—Louwrien Wijers

Rare first 1996 edition of this unique publication by Dutch Fluxus artist and writer Louwrien Wijers, published in London by Academy Editions.

Inspired by artists Joseph Beuys and Robert Filliou, this collection of interviews grew from the author's passionate belief that a meeting and cross-fertilisation of some of the world's greatest minds could help break down barriers between the different disciplines - art, science, spirituality and economics - leading to an increased global tolerance and understanding. This book contains ground-breaking interviews with some of the most significant thinkers of the late twentieth century including Dalai Lama, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Robert Filliou, David Bohm, Fritjof Capra, Sogyal Rinpoche, Rupert Sheldrake, Francisco Varela and Harish Johari. These previously unpublished documents date from the period 1978-1987. With the addition of a large number of rare archive photographs, this book constitutes a unique part of the history of the avant-garde as well as proposing a new holistic way of looking at the world.

Writing As Sculpture contains the longest interview ever given by Andy Warhol.

"This publication 'Writing as Sculpture' shows how Joseph Beuys sent me to Andy Warhol with the same questions I had put to him, and how Andy Warhol sent me on to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, again with the same questions. When the answers of the Dalai Lama were so very similar to the answers Joseph Beuys had given, I wrote him a postcard from Dharamsala, India, as soon as I let the Dalai Lama's abode. On the card - it was an Indian colourprint of the Tibetan flag - I said: 'Dear Joseph, you have a brother here in the Himalayas, who thinks exactly the same way about the problems of today as you do.' Back in Europe, talking to Joseph Beuys on the phone, he told me: 'Louwrien, I want to meet the Dalai Lama and I want to make a permanent co-operation with him. This way we will make Eurasia happen.'[...]"—Louwrien Wijers

File under: Nam June Paik Louwrien Wijers Joseph Beuys Andy Warhol Robert Filliou Louwrien Wijers Dalai Lama David Bohm Fritjof Capra Sogyal Rinpoche Rupert Sheldrake Francisco Varela Harish Johari Academy Editions / London Sculpture / Installation Art Theory / Essay Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Painting Occult / Esoterica Sociology / Politics

SALE2 No.33
HOMOSEX ISSUE

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Issue No.33 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.33, the "Homosex Issue" features Quentin Crisp, Herbert List, Andy Warhol, Pierre Klossowski, David Hockney, Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, Mel Odom, Jean Cocteau, Aubrey Beardsley, Guglielmo Plüschow, Vincenzo Galdi, and much more. It also features the Fiction, Inc. section that samples a cross-section of content from catalogue publications including the work of John Willie, Bill Ward, Carlo, Guido Crepax, Eric Stanton, Ruiz, Sally Roberts, Irving Claw, Betty Page, and periodicals such as Rubber Magazine, Amateur Bondage, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...
Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy with tanning and age to pages.

File under: Andy Warhol Aubrey Beardsley Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden Betty Page Bill Ward Carlo David Hockney Eric Stanton Guglielmo Plüschow Guido Crepax Irving Claw Jean Cocteau John Willie Mel Odom Pierre Klossowski Quentin Crisp Sally Roberts Vincenzo Galdi Herbert List Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Graphic Design / Typography Eros Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography LGBTQ+

Styles of Living
The Best of Casa Vogue

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 224 pages, 30 x 22.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$200.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, published by Rizzoli in 1985, of this classic interior design book, "Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue"

Making appearances in these rooms: Gae Aulenti, Man Ray, Enzo Mari, Carlo Scarpa, Pablo Picasso, Josef Hoffman, Cinzia Ruggeri, Max Ernst, Wols, Matteo Thun, Ettore Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Lucio Fontana, Eileen Grey, Daniel Buren, Gaetano Pesce, Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Massimo Vignelli, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Tàpies, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alver Aalto.....

"Ever since the end of the Second World War, Italian style, design and decoration have maintained an unprecedented predominance in the Western World. It was in the early 1950s that a great surge of decorative talent welled up in Italy, and this resulted in the 'Italian look' in clothes and in homes - a new standard of chic inventiveness.

The Italian view of interior design has been most enterprisingly expressed in the magazine Casa Vogue, which was founded in 1968 and has consistently been one of the most admired publications of Condé Nast International.

This book, garnered from the many issues of Casa Vogue, has been written and produced under the guidance of Isa Vercellonim who has been its editor ever since its inception. The choice of picture-stories is intended to reflect the unusual and distinctive diversity of the magazine - ranging from traditional decoration to the more advance examples of minimal design, most the most significant of contemporary buildings to the spectacular reconstructions and reconversions of old palazzi and coachhouses, from the 'post modern' to the 'anti-modern' and any other 'moderns' that may have been advocated recently. Italian trends naturally provide the main focus, but Casa Vogue also includes developments in the United States, France, Switzerland - indeed, wherever unusual and meaningful designs are being created."

Very good copy in Good dust-jacket, protected under mylar wrap.

File under: Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Carlo Scarpa Charles Eames Cinzia Ruggeri Daniel Buren Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Frank Lloyd Wright Gae Aulenti Gaetano Pesce Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Massimo Vignelli Matteo Thun Max Ernst Michelangelo Pistoletto Pablo Picasso René Magritte Salvador Dalí Verner Panton Wols Alvar Aalto Rizzoli / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera

SALE2 No.30
SPECIAL ISSUE

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 168 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

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Issue No.30 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.30, the "Special Issue" features Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Richard Cerf, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul Wunderlich, Robert Maplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Lewis Carroll, John Willie, Bernard Montorgueil, Guido Crepax, Van Rod, Carlo, Betty Page, Tealdo, clippings from periodicals such as Amateur Bondage, Bondage Life, Bondage Fantasies, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy with tanning to pages.

File under: Andy Warhol Bernard Montorgueil Betty Page Carlo Guido Crepax Hans Bellmer John Willie Leonor Fini Lewis Carroll Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Richard Cerf Robert Mapplethorpe Tealdo Van Rod Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Art Counterculture Eros Fashion Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

Newspaper
Steve Lawrence, Peter Hujar, Andrew Ullrick

2023, English
Softcover, 416 pages
Published by Primary Information / New York

$84.00 - Out of stock

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Published by Steve Lawrence and edited with Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, Newspaper was published in New York City between 1968 and 1971.

Newspaper was a wordless, picture-only periodical that ran for fourteen issues and featured the disparate practices of over forty artists. With an editorial focus on placing appropriated material alongside new works, the periodical sought to codify a visual language of high and low culture that represented contemporary society in the late 1960s. While largely overlooked in art-historical discourse, Newspaper showcased many of the most revered artists working in the United States at the time, as well as an emerging coterie of queer artists.

The mid to late sixties was a flourishing period for artists experimenting with new media formats such as books, records, and magazines to create or distribute their work. Newspaper was one of the first artist-published tabloids of its era, preceding Andy Warhol’s Interview and Les Levine’s Culture Hero, both of which debuted in 1969. However, in contrast to other tabloids, Newspaper focused strictly on images.

At a time when photography was not being exhibited regularly in galleries, Newspaper provided an alternative exhibition space for the medium and some of the era’s greatest photographers. The publication’s large size and unbound format encouraged readers to take it apart and hang its pages, which was how Newspaper was installed at the Museum of Modern Art’s influential Information show in 1970.

This is not to say that Newspaper only existed within the narrow confines of the art world, far from it. It lived within (and shared contributors with) a robust network of underground and queer periodicals like The New York Review of Sex, Rags, and Gay Power, among others. Yet, unlike many of these tabloids, Newspaper has largely disappeared from the discourse around underground magazines, queer publishing, and artists’ periodicals.

All fourteen issues of Newspaper are compiled in this volume for the first time.

Featured artists include: Diane Arbus, Art Workers Coalition, Richard Avedon, Clyde Baines, Sheyla Baykal, Peter Beard, Brigid Berlin, Richard Bernstein, Ann Douglas, Paul Fisher, Maurice Hogenboom, Peter Hujar, Scott Hyde, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, Ray Johnson, Edwin Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Gerald Laing, Dorothea Lange, Steve Lawrence, Jeff Lew, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Mercado, Duane Michals, Jack Mitchell, Forrest “Frosty” Myers, Billy Name, Stephen Paley, Warner Pearson, Jurgen Warner Piepke, Charles Pratt, Joseph Raffael, Mel Ramos, Lilo Raymond, Ruspoli-Rodriguez, Lucas Samaras, Alan Saret, Bill Schwedler, Leni Sinclair, Norman Snyder, Elizabeth Staal, Stanley Stellar, Terry Stevenson, Paul Thek, Andrew Ullrick, Andy Warhol, William T. Wiley, and May Wilson.

Editor: Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez
Managing Editor: James Hoff
Designer: Rick Myers
Copy editor: Allison Dubinsky

File under: Diane Arbus Art Workers Coalition Richard Avedon Clyde Baines Sheyla Baykal Peter Beard Brigid Berlin Richard Bernstein Ann Douglas Paul Fisher Maurice Hogenboom Peter Hujar Scott Hyde Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff Ray Johnson Edwin Klein Yayoi Kusama Gerald Laing Dorothea Lange Steve Lawrence Jeff Lew Roy Lichtenstein Frank Mercado Duane Michals Jack Mitchell Forrest “Frosty” Myers Billy Name Stephen Paley Warner Pearson Jurgen Warner Piepke Charles Pratt Joseph Raffael Mel Ramos Lilo Raymond Ruspoli-Rodriguez Lucas Samaras Alan Saret Bill Schwedler Leni Sinclair Norman Snyder Elizabeth Staal Stanley Stellar Terry Stevenson Paul Thek Andrew Ullrick Andy Warhol William T. Wiley May Wilson Rick Myers Primary Information / New York Art Photography Conceptual Art Pop Art LGBTQ+ Counterculture

Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Edited by David Homewood and Paris Lettau

2023, English
Softcover, 346 pages, 24.8 x 17.2 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

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Contemporary art begins where painting ends, or so goes one of recent art history's most dominant narratives. This book is a post-mortem of the supposed death of painting in the period following World War II. In eleven essays by a global array of leading scholars, Ends of Painting offers a counter-history, showing how the practice and discourse of painting remained integral to art throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Written by art historians from Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, each chapter captures a renewed critical approach to topics as diverse as conceptualism and anachronism, photography and autobiography, theatre and politics, nationalism and consumerism, race and modernism.

The book reveals a vast constellation in which painting’s ends are also beginnings—from Warhol’s Cow Wallpaper at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York to Naoyoshi Hikosaka’s act of pouring latex over tatami mats on his bedroom floor in Tokyo; from the first canvas boards by Aboriginal artists at Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert to the Collective Actions Group’s documentation of people holding up arrangements of coloured envelopes in snowfields outside Moscow.

These unlikely correspondences between times and places sustain this book’s return to the medium, revealing how history is brushed by painting, and painting by history.

File under: Andy Warhol Daan Van Golden Naoyoshi Hikosaka David Homewood Paris Lettau Power Publications / Sydney Painting Australian Art Art Theory / Essay Pop Art Conceptual Art

Façade no. 3

1977, French / Japanese
Softcover, 40 pages (w. Japanese translation booklet insert), 34.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Façade / Paris

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Issue no. 3 of the incredibly rare and iconic Façade, the French underground magazine published in Paris between 1976—1983. Founded in 1976 by Alain Benoist and Hervé Pinard, Façade was the french answer to Andy Warhol's Interview, heavily centered around Parisian club, fashion and art scene and published without any date or periodicity until 1983. Launched at an Issey Miyake show where models handed out the magazine from the catwalk, the cult magazine witness through its pages a long-lost, short-lived period in Paris featuring the so-called "jeunes gens modernes" of the 1970's, like punk icons Edwige Belmore and Alain Pacadis. With pop celebrity covers and vibrant fashion shoots styled by the likes of a young Pierre et Gilles (who met through working on this very magazine), features in collaboration with the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, and in each issue a unique "false" advertisement created by Karl Lagerfeld, it's no wonder Façade's reputation spread quickly to New York, Tokyo and beyond, making it one of the most desired magazines of the new wave. With texts in French, these rare issues come complete with the inserted Japanese translation booklets. Includes Eddie and the Hot Rods, Andy Warhol, Gilbert and George, the Inauguration of Beaubourg, Serge Gainsbourg, Alain Pacadis, Karl Lagerfeld… with collaborations from Pierre Commoy, Thierry Ardisson, Philippe Morillon, and much more.

Very Good copy, tanning. Beautifully preserved.

File under: Andy Warhol Serge Gainsbourg Gilbert & George Eddie and the Hot Rods Façade / Paris Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Fashion Photography Sound / Music Counterculture Film / Video

Visual Message 1 & 2

1978 / 1979, Japanese
Softcover, 127 pages + 144 pages, 22.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Visual Message / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First (1978) and second (1979) issues of Visual Message, the "comprehensive magazine of the visual age", published in Japan for a short period at the end of the 1970s. This explosive inaugural issue, co-edited by graphic designers Ikko Tanaka and Kazuya Uegami, and copywriter Shinya Nishimura and themed "Visual Scandal" is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Saito, Harumi Yamaguchi, Masamichi Oikawa, Eiko Ishioka, Shigeo Fukuda, Tomi Ungerer, Masayuki Kurokawa, SITE, Tsunehisa Kimura, Tenmei Kano, Raymond Savignac, Katsumi Asaba, Ken Mori, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Folon, Asai Shinpei, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Herb Lubalin, Osamu Nagahama, M.C. Escher, Shiro Tatsumi, Hiroki Hayashi, Masayoshi Nakajo, Hiroshi Yoda, Hipgnosis, and many more.

Second 1979 issue of Visual Message is structured around the themes "Before/After" and "Scale" and again is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Philip Johnson, Hideo Yamashita, Seiji Takada, Takahisa Kamijō, Haruo Takino, Takenobu Igarashi, Akira Yokoyama, Hisaki Hiramatsu, Takamichi Ito, Tomoya Nakano, Shōji Yamagishi, and many more.

V.M. 1. Good copy. Some cover/spine wear/creases/small closed tear to edge.
V.M. 2. Very Good copy. Light general wear.

File under: Ikko Tanaka Raymond Savignac Harumi Yamaguchi Andy Warhol Marcel Duchamp Rene Magritte Tadanori Yokoo SITE Tsunehisa Kimura Shigeo Fukuda Tomi Ungerer Jean-Michel Folon Eiko Ishioka Katsu Yoshida Tenmei Kano Asai Shinpei Masao Saito Katsumi Asaba Ken Mori Herb Lubalin M.C. Escher Masayuki Kurokawa Masamichi Oikawa Hipgnosis Shiro Tatsumi Hiroki Hayashi Masayoshi Nakajo Hiroshi Yoda Osamu Nagahama Visual Message / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Fashion Graphic Design / Typography Japanese Photography

Andy Warhol's Exposures

1979, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 256 pages, 29.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Grosset & Dunlap / New York

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"I don't think Studio 54 is like pagan Rome. I think it's like junior high school." — Andy Warhol

First 1979 edition of Warhol's first book of photographs. Exposures is Warhol's collection of never before published photographs of the people of the Warhol-universe, celebrities captured in candid, revealing moments. With illuminating text by Warhol and Interview magazine editor, writer, and Warhol's "right-hand Factory man" Bob Colacello. Art directed by American photographer, artist, Many Ray apprentice and Warhol collaborator Christopher Makos.

"This is a book of photographs and profiles of his friends by Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol's friends are the stars of rock, fashion, film, society, sports, politics. "My idea of a good picture, " writes Warhol, "is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time." Only Andy Warhol could be in so many right places at so many wrong times, and only Andy Warhol could bring together these 360 "good pictures," presenting a unique view of contemporary celebrity life by the most contemporary celebrity of all. Here are Mick, Bianca, and Jade Jagger, Truman Capote, Paulette Goddard, Jacqueline Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Salvador Dali, Halston, Diana Vreeland.... Here they are at work and at play, in public and in private, caught at moments when only Andy Warhol as friend and fellow star, could catch them."

Very Good copy, in VG dust jacket, now protected under mylar wrap.

New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap, 1979. Folio, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book with abrasion on blank corner of front index leaf (apparently from a harshly erased price), otherwise fine; dust jacket with only a tiny bit of edgewear. A beautiful copy, rare signed and in such good condition.

File under: Andy Warhol Christopher Makos Andy Warhol Bob Colacello Grosset & Dunlap / New York Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Pop Art Sound / Music

Christopher Makos
Schicker Schund

1978, German
Softcover, 96 pages (with many fold-outs), 23 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rogner & Bernhard / Münich

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First German edition of Christopher Makos' "Schicker Schund" (or "White Trash") from 1978. Born in Massachusetts in 1948, Makos spent his boyhood in California and before moving to Paris to study architecture and, eventually, to apprentice with artist, Man Ray. Since 1966 he has worked at developing a unique style of boldly graphic photo—journalism. In "Schicker Schund", Makos displays his seeming dis-regard for human and social values, describing a strange (and often sordid) terrain, inhabited by the prophets of an ambisexual generation tolling a future of catatonia. Makos himself has said, regarding the nature of his art, that “the camera is a knife. And photography is an act of violence.” Amongst his victims are William Burroughs, Richard Hell, Devine, David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper, David Johansen, Zandra Rhodes, Mick Jagger, Man Ray, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams and many others.

Very Good copy.

File under: Christopher Makos William Burroughs Richard Hell Devine David Bowie Debbie Harry Alice Cooper David Johansen Zandra Rhodes Mick Jagger Man Ray Patti Smith Andy Warhol Rogner & Bernhard / Münich Sound / Music Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Counterculture

Jimmy DeSana
Submission

2022, English
Hardcover, 176 pages, 30.5 x 23 cm
Published by DelMonico Books / US Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn

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The first comprehensive book on the surreal, queer and humorous photographic art of Jimmy DeSana, a central figure in New York's art and music scenes of the 1970s and '80s.

This is the first overview of the work of Jimmy DeSana, a pioneering yet underrecognized figure in New York's downtown art, music and film scenes during the 1970s and 1980s. The book situates DeSana's work and life within the countercultural and queer contexts in the American South as well as New York, through his involvement in mail art, punk and No Wave music and film, and artist collectives and publications.

DeSana's first major project was 101 Nudes, made in Atlanta during the city's gay liberation movement. After moving to New York in 1973, DeSana became immersed in queer networks, collaborating with General Idea and Ray Johnson on zines and mail art, and documenting the genderqueer street performances of Stephen Varble.

By the mid-1970s, DeSana was a fixture in New York's No Wave music and film scenes, serving as portraitist for much of the period's central figures and producing album covers for Talking Heads, James Chance and others. His book Submission, made with William S. Burroughs, humorously staged scenes out of a S&M manual that explored the body as object and the performance of desire. DeSana was also an early adopter of color photography, creating his best-known series, Suburban, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This body of work explores relationships between gender, sexuality and consumer capitalism in often humorous, surreal ways. After DeSana became sick as a result of contracting HIV, he turned to abstraction, using experimental photographic techniques to continue to push against photographic norms.

Edited by Drew Sawyer.
Preface by Anne Pasternak.
Epilogue by Laurie Simmons.

File under: Jimmy Desana Brian Weil General Idea Ray Johnson Stephen Varble Andy Warhol Jimmy DeSana Drew Sawyer Anne Pasternak Laurie Simmons William S. Burroughs DelMonico Books / US Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Photography LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM Eros Counterculture Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater