World Food Books

OBJET — Deviant Materials

1987, Japanese
Softcover (w. wax dust jacket), 56 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo

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Rare copy of the 1987 exhibition cataloue OBJET — Deviant Materials, published on the occasion of the group exhibition at Seibu Museum of Art and curated by Tatehata Satoshi, exploring postwar sculptural art in Japan from around 1960 to the present day through the work of 21 artists, an attempt to provide an opportunity to see the expansion and transformation of the so-called object itself. Heavily illustrated throughout with worksm biographies adn statements from artists including Genpei Akasegawa, Kazunori Ono, Mokuma Kikubata, Ryo Kitatsuji, Yayoi Kusama, Tetsumi Kudo, Yumiko Kanno, Shuzo Takiguchi, Kyoji Takubo, Atsuko Tanaka, Satomi Tim, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Shiro Matsui, Tomio Miki, Kimiyo Mishima, Toyoji Miyazaki, Saburo Muraoka, Tatsumi Yoshino, Masunobu Yoshimura, Isamu Wakabayashi...

Good copy, some wear, light foxing.

File under: Genpei Akasegawa Kazunori Ono Mokuma Kikubata Ryo Kitatsuji Yayoi Kusama Tetsumi Kudo Yumiko Kanno Shuzo Takiguchi Kyoji Takubo Atsuko Tanaka Satomi Tim Natsuyuki Nakanishi Shiro Matsui Tomio Miki Kimiyo Mishima Toyoji Miyazaki Saburo Muraoka Tatsumi Yoshino Masunobu Yoshimura Isamu Wakabayashi Tatehata Satoshi Seibu Museum of Art / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada SALE

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

Assemblage, Environments & Happenings
by Allan Kaprow

1966, English
Hardcover (Burlap covered boards), 342 pages, 32 x 31cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$400.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1966 burlap-bound edition of this seminal work by Allan Kaprow documenting the milieu of performance art and happenings in the early-mid 1960s. Published by H. N. Abrams, Assemblage, Environments & Happenings is a legendary photo-artist-book by “one of the grand antiheroes of contemporary art”, produced in way we would never see today. Wrapped in a heavy, debossed and screen-printed raw burlap hardcover, this massive and visually stunning volume features incredible typography, commentary and lay-out by Kaprow himself, accompanying countless photogravures (photos taken by Oldenburg, Robert McElroy, Peter Moore and others) featuring the work of artists (and non-artists) such as Claes Oldenburg, Tetsumi Kudo, Jean Tinguely, Clarence Schmidt, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, Kenneth Dewey, Milan Knizak, Jackson Pollock, Robert Whitman, Red Grooms, George Segal, Yayoi Kusama, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, together with images of works by the Japanese Gutai Group (Murakami Saburo, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, et al) and many more.

Allan Kaprow, “an artist who coined the term ‘happenings’ in the late 1950s and whose anti-art works contributed to radical changes in the course of late 20th-century art,” was a leading member-with artists George Segal, Jim Dine and Claes Oldenberg-of a group whose performance works were signally influenced by John Cage’s “reliance on chance as an organizing, or disorganizing element in art. Like Cage, Kaprow used a combination of choice and accident as a way of creating nonverbal, quasi-theatrical situations in which performers functioned as kinetic objects, the role of the single artist-genius was de-emphasized, audience members became creative participants and no-clear distinction was made between everyday actions and ritual…” (New York Times).

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Very Good copy, spotless with tight-As New binding, perfectly preserved.

File under: Gutai Allan Kaprow Murakami Saburo Shozo Shimamoto Kazuo Shiraga Atsuko Tanaka Claes Oldenburg Tetsumi Kudo Clarence Schmidt Jackson Pollock George Segal Yayoi Kusama Jim Dine Robert Rauschenberg Jean-Jacques Lebel Wolf Vostell George Brecht Kenneth Dewey Milan Knizak Robert Whitman Red Grooms Jean Tinguely Harry N. Abrams / New York Sculpture / Installation Painting Fluxus Arte Povera Art Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare

Explosion! : Painting as Action

2012, English / Swedish
Softcover, 224 pages, 28 x 21.7cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$68.00 - Out of stock

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In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was deemed as important as the painting that resulted from it, creating an energetic interzone between painting and performance in which chance procedures, the movement of bodies and the participation of spectators were all recruited as tools.

Explosion! Painting as Action explores the connections and cross fertilizations between painting, performance and conceptual art from the late 1940s to the present. Examining painting, photography, video, performance, dance and sound art, this volume includes works by Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Gutai Group, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Shozo Shimamoto, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

File under: Adel Abdessemed Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bruce Nauman Cai Guo-Qiang Ceal Floyer Francis Alÿs George Brecht Jackson Pollock Jean Tinguely John Baldessari John Cage Jutta Koether Lawrence Weiner Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul McCarthy Robert Rauschenberg Tony Conrad Yoko Ono Yves Klein Rivane Neuenschwander Carolee Schneemann Shozo Shimamoto Gutai Atsuko Tanaka Simone Forti Ann-Sofi Noring Daniel Birnbaum Julia Robinson Ming Tiampo Walther König / Köln Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections

Art-Events and Happenings
Udo Kultermann (Ed.)

1971, English
Softcover, 210 pages, 23 x 25 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mathews Miller Dunbar / London

$70.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition from 1971, Udo Kultermann's "Art-Events and Happenings", published by Mathews Miller Dunbar of London, translated by John William Gabriel. A deep reflection on an important part of Art's development throughout the 1960s - the turn to action through performance and conceptual art - surveying happenings, protests, theatre, ritual, land art and much more, and featuring a vast collection of black and white photographic illustrations of the work of Allan Kaprow, Ann Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Otto Mühl, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Piero Gilardi, Charlotte Moorman, Franz Erhard Walther, Joseph Beuys, Tetsumi Kudo, Lygia Clark, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Andy Warhol, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, Barry La Va, Rafael Ferrer, Marinus Boezum, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knizak, Jackson Pollock, Saburo Murakami, Atsuko Tanaka, Claes Oldenburg, Piero Manzoni, Peter Hutchinson, Christo, Robert Morris, and many more.

Very good copy (some tanning, previous owners name to first page)

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Atsuko Tanaka Barry La Va Carl Andre Carolee Schneemann Charlotte Moorman Christo Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Franz Erhard Walther Hermann Nitsch Jackson Pollock Jan Dibbets Jean-Jacques Lebel John Cage Joseph Beuys Lygia Clark Marinus Boezem Merce Cunningham Milan Knizak Nam June Paik Otto Muehl Peter Hutchinson Piero Gilardi Piero Manzoni Rafael Ferrer Robert Morris Saburo Murakami Stan Brakhage Tetsumi Kudo Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Günter Brus Öyvind Fahlström Anna Halprin Udo Kultermann Mathews Miller Dunbar / London Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art

1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art

1996, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. inserted exhibition ephemera), 198 pages, 22 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Book published for the exhibition "1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art" in 1996 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. The work was divided into seven categories: 'Japanese-style Paintings', 'Oil Paintings', 'Prints', 'Sculptures', 'Anti-art Trend', '#32 The Venice Biennale' and 'Reportage on the Time', all illustrated in full-colour. A chronology from 1963 to 1965, a detailed bibliography as well as checklist of the exhibition and a group of essays (in English and Japanese) are included in this publication. This copy also includes inserted ephemera from the exhibition - ticketstub, adverts, pamphlets, guides, etc.

Includes work by Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Tadanori Yokoo, Ay-o, Nobuaki Kojima, Genpei Akasegawa, Tomio Miki, Kikuko Morimoto, Koichi Tateishi, Toshinobu Onosato, Yoshishige Saito, Taro Okamoto, Sadamasa Motonaga, Yuki Katsyra, Jiro Yoshihara, Saburo Aso, Kumi Sagai, Kazuo Shiraga, Masaaki Yamada, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Atsuko Tanaka, Minami Tada, Yoshikuni Iida, Bukichi Inoue, Shu Eguchi, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Matsuzawa Yutaka, Shinjiro Okamoto, Shusaku Arakawa, Yukihisa Isobe, Akira Shimizu, Jiro Takamatsu, and many more.

'This exhibition spotlights the year of the Tokyo Olympics, 1964, bringing back the art scene of that year in the museum galleries. Many previous exhibitions have shown how important the decade of the sixties was for the development of postwar art. [...] We have chosen to focus on 1964 as a significant dividing line between the first and second half of this fruitful decade. While there are few precedents fro an exhibition concentrating on a single year, we felt that an objective examination of a limited period could give a more precise picture of the art of that time and the ways in which it was related to social changes. There were not many art events directly related to the Tokyo Olympics, especially when compared to the international exposition held in Osaka in 1970. However, the many art movements and ideas which emerged that year had an extremely important effect on things to come. In this exhibition, we show how the year of the Tokyo Olympics, that great landmark of postwar history, was also a turning point in the art history of this country and we present a comprehensive view of the art produced that year. [...]' (Foreword by Kamon Yasuo)

File under: Natsuyuki Nakanishi Tadanori Yokoo Nobuaki Kojima Genpei Akasegawa Tomio Miki Kikuko Morimoto Koichi Tateishi Toshinobu Onosato Yoshishige Saito Sadamasa Motonaga Yuki Katsyra Jiro Yoshihara Saburo Aso Kumi Sagai Kazuo Shiraga Masaaki Yamada Tadaaki Kuwayama Atsuko Tanaka Minami Tada Yoshikuni Iida Bukichi Inoue Shu Eguchi Katsuhiro Yamaguchi Matsuzawa Yutaka Shinjiro Okamoto Shusaku Arakawa Yukihisa Isobe Akira Shimizu Jiro Takamatsu Tarō Okamoto Ay-O Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Painting Conceptual Art Fluxus Dada

Dada in Japan 1920 - 1970

2005, Japanese
Softcover, 170 pages, 22 x 30.5 cm
Revised Ed.,
Published by Suiseisha / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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This book documents the Dada movement in Japan from 1920s to 1970s through a collection of photos, artists' statements and recollections. It is a revised 2005 edition of a book first published in Japan in 1988 (following on from a publication 'Dada in Japan: Japanische Avantgarde, 1920-1970: Eine Fotodokumentation' from a large exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf in Germany in 1983). It covers the rarely seen photographic documentation of the avant-garde movements of Mavo, Gutai and more, featuring imagery and ephemera from installations, happenings, theatre performances, rallies, and protests including the work of artists Genpei Akasegawa, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Shozo Shimamoto, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Yoshimura Masanobu, Tetsumi Kudo, and many others.

File under: Atsuko Tanaka Genpei Akasegawa Gutai Kazuo Shiraga Mavo Nakanishi Natsuyuki Shozo Shimamoto Tetsumi Kudo Tomoyoshi Murayama Yoshimura Masanobu Yoshio Shirakawa Suiseisha / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Conceptual Art

Dada in Japan 1920 - 1970

1988, Japanese
Hardcover (w/ pulped dust jacket), 163 pages, 22 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Hatsubaimoto Hakuba Shobo / Japan

$110.00 - Out of stock

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This first edition hard-cover book (in fine pulped, recycled paper dust jacket) documents the Dada movement in Japan from 1920s to 1970s through a collection of photos, artists' statements and recollections, published in Japan in 1988 (following on from a publication 'Dada in Japan: Japanische Avantgarde, 1920-1970: Eine Fotodokumentation' from a large exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf in Germany in 1983). It covers the rarely seen photographic documentation of the avant-garde movements of Mavo, Gutai and more, featuring imagery and ephemera from installations, happenings, theatre performances, rallies, and protests including the work of artists Genpei Akasegawa, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Shozo Shimamoto, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Yoshimura Masanobu, Tetsumi Kudo, and many others.

*Condition: Very good-Fine – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Atsuko Tanaka Genpei Akasegawa Gutai Kazuo Shiraga Mavo Nakanishi Natsuyuki Shozo Shimamoto Tetsumi Kudo Tomoyoshi Murayama Yoshimura Masanobu Yoshio Shirakawa Hatsubaimoto Hakuba Shobo / Japan Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

$70.00 - Out of stock

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Atsuko Tanaka
Search for an Unknown, 1954-2000

2001, Japanese / English / French
Softcover, 224 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 30 x 24 cm
Out of print title / Used* / First printing,
Published by Ashiya City Museum of Art and History / Ashiya

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Atsuko Tanaka became a member of the Gutai group in 1955 as one of the few female artists in the group. Kindling the group’s spirit and experimental avant-gardism, Tanaka defied notions of art that were held previously, trying-out new materials and techniques in a bid to address and partake in the culture of the post-war art world. Bringing together the visual language of modernism with elements of Japanese traditional arts, Tanaka worked on abstract paintings as well as performance art.

Catalogue from the 2001 exhibition at Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan

*Condition: Very good – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Atsuko Tanaka Ashiya City Museum of Art and History / Ashiya Art Out-of-print / Rare

GUTAI:
The Spirit of an Era

2012, English / Japanese
Hardcover, 300 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 29.5 x 19.5 cm
Published by The National Art Center / Tokyo

$50.00 - Out of stock

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The 2012 exhibition catalog from the National Art Center, Tokyo, documenting the first Tokyo retrospective of Gutai works covering all it’s periods. In his essay, “Gutai: A Utopia of the Modern Spirit,” editor Shoichi discusses the reasons for the movements four decade omission from Tokyo artistic investigation. The author argues that while Tokyo dismissed Gutai, it was equally misunderstood in the West. Underlying all of these misgivings was Yoshihara’s desire for the emergence of a new spirit after war torn Japan. “It seems that Yoshihara truly believed that pursuing new horizons in art was connected to the liberation of the spirit and would help people live a better life in turbulent times as well as contributing to the development of the human race as a whole…If Yoshihara believed that art would force Japan, after its military defeat, to become a modern nation of the sort that it was destined to be before the war, and a country that could engage in discourse on equal terms with the West based on a shared set of values, one might also say that Gutai offered him a practical means of achieving the goal of a ‘Utopia of the modern spirit’ that was thoroughly characteristic of someone who had been steeped in the liberalism of the ‘20s…” Other essays include Yukako Yamada’s, “Approaching the Finale: The Osaka Expo,” which traces the evolution of Gutai’s parting gesture, and “From Ashiya to Amsterdam: Gutai’s Exhibition Spaces,” by Naoki Yoneda, which discusses various Gutai exhibitions both at home and abroad, but focuses on the architectural space of the Gutai Pinachotheca. The main text breaks the movement into early, middle and later periods, with extensive photo documentation of each. English translations are provided at the conclusion of the work, as is a “Gutai Chronology,” and “Biographical Sketches of the Artists,” as well as a complete listing of works in the exhibition.

File under: Akira Kanayama Atsuko Tanaka Jiro Yoshihara Kazuo Shiraga Murakami Saburo Norio Imai Sadamasa Motonaga Shozo Shimamoto Shuji Mukai Takesada Matsutani Tsuruko Yamazaki Yasuo Sumi The National Art Center / Tokyo Art