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Beuys + Palermo

2021, Japanese / English
Hardcover (with obi), 368 pages, 20 x 30 cm
Published by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi

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Beautiful hardcover catalogue published in Japan to the exhibition Beuys + Palermo touring three venues across Japan in 2021.

Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo were from different generations, but both experienced WWII and the postwar reconstruction, as teacher and pupil. One of the most important artists since World War II, Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) asserted that true capital lies in the creativity of human beings, and viewing the whole of society as sculpture, set out to change it. Beuys is also known for his role in nurturing numerous artists in his capacity as an educator. One such pupil was Blinky Palermo (1943–1977). The modest abstract works that form the legacy of this painter active for just a short few years from the mid-1960s up to his early demise, were an attempt to quietly overturn our perceptions, and social systems, via the visceral experience of color and form, all the while reconstructing the compositional elements of painting. The works of these two superficially contrasting German artists were alike in that both Beuys and Palermo endeavored to restore art to the status of a raw, live endeavor, Beuys indeed later acknowledging his former student to be the artist closest to himself. Composed primarily of works from the 1960s and ‘70s, documentation from the period and detailed texts, “Beuys + Palermo” explores the features of each of these two artists, while simultaneously searching for the latent power of their praxis in their involvement and overlap with each other.

File under: Joseph Beuys Blinky Palermo Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi Art Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Arte Povera Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Blinky Palermo
Palermo 1943—1977

1989, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 30 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Delano Greenidge Editions / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First 1989 hardcover edition of this seminal and now rare English-language Palermo monograph, published by Delano Greenidge Editions, New York. This gorgeous book, personally our favourite Palermo book, is profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, surveying this great German artist's entire career, accompanied by texts from Franz Dahlem, Evelyn Weiss, Max Wechsler, and a bibliography by Aurel Scheibler, plus list of exhibitions. Includes many portraits, installations and studio photographs, also. Edited by Erich Maas and Delano Greenidge. All texts are in both English and German.

Blinky Palermo (1943—1977), born Peter Schwarze, Heisterkamp his foster surname, was a German abstract painter. He adopted his outlandish name in 1964, during his studies with Bruno Goller and Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1962 and 1967, in reference to Frank "Blinky" Palermo, an American Mafioso and boxing promoter who managed Sonny Liston. In 1969, Palermo moved to Mönchengladbach and set up a studio he would share with Imi Knoebel and Ulrich Rückriem. After a stay in New York in the early 1970s, he moved into Gerhard Richter's former Düsseldorf studio. Over the course of his 14-year artistic career Palermo tirelessly probed the limits of abstract painting. Having begun his brushwork on more traditional surfaces, he shifted his activity to less conventional supports, experimenting with diverse materials and forms, exploring the relationships that can exist between the wall and the space delimited by the painting. Under Beuys, he became increasingly interested in the organized spatial relationship between form and colour, a polarity which is manifest throughout the rest of his oeuvre. In the mid 1960s, Palermo moved away from conventional rectangular canvases and increasingly opted for surfaces such as the circle, triangle, cruciform, totem pole and even the interior walls of buildings. Between 1964 and 1966, Palermo produced a small series of paintings on canvas in which he experimented with constructivist principles of order. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. Blinky Palermo died in 1977, aged 33, during a trip to the Maldives.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket, bumping to hardcover corners not affecting pages, light wear and tear to DJ.

File under: Blinky Palermo Joseph Beuys Delano Greenidge Editions / New York Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art Art

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

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

1945—1985 : Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Edited by Dominik Bartmann

1985, German
Softcover, 736 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Nationalgalerie / Berlin

$40.00 - In stock -

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Enormous 700+ page volume about "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945—1985", published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 27, 1985—January 21, 1986. Profusely illustrated in colour with many works by Vostell, Baselitz, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Palermo, Klapheck, Darboven, Schultze, Uecker, Horn, Lüpertz, Haacke, Ruthenbeck, Antes, the Bechers, Rinke, Gerz, Erhard Walther, Penck, Knowles, Higgins, June Paik, Maciunas, Christiansen, Filliou, Brecht, Kriwet, Roth, Ulrichs, and many more, accompanied by texts in German, bibliography and index.

Good copy, some rubbing to the cover boards, light wear, bumping with age/size.

File under: Wolf Vostell A.R. Penck Joseph Beuys Rainer Ruthenbeck Sigmar Polke Horst Antes Robert Filliou Hanne Darboven Ferdinand Kriwet Nam June Paik Alison Knowles Blinky Palermo George Brecht George Maciunas Dick Higgins Gerhard Richter Konrad Klapheck Rebecca Horn Hans Haacke Bernhard Schultze Bernhard & Hilla Becher Bernd and Hilla Becher Hilla and Bernd Becher Georg Baselitz Markus Lüpertz Timm Ulrichs Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Henning Christiansen Franz Erhard Walther Jochen Gerz Klaus Rinke Günter Uecker Günther Uecker Gunther Uecker Vostell Baselitz Beuys Polke Richter Palermo Klapheck Schultze Uecker Horn Lüpertz Darbhoven Haacke Ruthenbeck Antes the Bechers Rinke Gerz Erhard Walther Penck Knowles Higgins June Paik Maciunas Christiansen Filliou Brecht Kriwet Roth Ulruchs Dominik Bartmann Nationalgalerie / Berlin Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drawing Sculpture / Installation Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Curatorial Fluxus Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Photography Theory / Essay

Blinky Palermo
Palermo (Peter Heisterkamp)

1981, German
Softcover, 150 pages, 26.5 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunstmuseum Bonn / Bonn

$120.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the scarce 1981 Blinky Palermo book published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Palermo (Peter Heisterkamp)' at Kunstmuseum Bonn, 22 Sept — 1 Nov, 1981. One of the best books on Palermo, this volume is profusely illustrated throughout with works in colour and b/w, paintings, objects, drawings, installations, photographs, accompanied with text by Dierk Stemmler, biography, chronology of works, exhibitions, and more. Texts in German.

Blinky Palermo (1943—1977), born Peter Schwarze, Heisterkamp his foster surname, was a German abstract painter. He adopted his outlandish name in 1964, during his studies with Bruno Goller and Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1962 and 1967, in reference to Frank "Blinky" Palermo, an American Mafioso and boxing promoter who managed Sonny Liston. In 1969, Palermo moved to Mönchengladbach and set up a studio he would share with Imi Knoebel and Ulrich Rückriem. After a stay in New York in the early 1970s, he moved into Gerhard Richter's former Düsseldorf studio. Over the course of his 14-year artistic career Palermo tirelessly probed the limits of abstract painting. Having begun his brushwork on more traditional surfaces, he shifted his activity to less conventional supports, experimenting with diverse materials and forms, exploring the relationships that can exist between the wall and the space delimited by the painting. Under Beuys, he became increasingly interested in the organized spatial relationship between form and colour, a polarity which is manifest throughout the rest of his oeuvre. In the mid 1960s, Palermo moved away from conventional rectangular canvases and increasingly opted for surfaces such as the circle, triangle, cruciform, totem pole and even the interior walls of buildings. Between 1964 and 1966, Palermo produced a small series of paintings on canvas in which he experimented with constructivist principles of order. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. Blinky Palermo died in 1977, aged 33, during a trip to the Maldives.

Very Good copy with only light shelf wear to blue covers, light bump to top corner.

File under: Blinky Palermo Joseph Beuys Kunstmuseum Bonn / Bonn Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art Art

The Stage of Drawing : Gesture and Act
Edited by Catherine De Zegher

2003, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 21 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

$110.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this lovely hardcover catalogue, published on the occasion of a special travelling exhibition of drawings at The Drawing Centre, New York; Tate, London; MCA, Sydney, 2003 — over 140 important works from the Tate Collection organised, from William Blake to Andy Warhol, selected by the British artist Avis Newman and curated Catherine de Zegher. Newman chose these works because they demonstrated her interest in drawing as an exploratory or discursive act - ie as 'the nearest equivalent to the operation of thought'. The presentation of rarely-seen drawings by so many major artists gives way to fresh and startling connections between their work and new insights into their creative processes. Edited by Catherine De Zegher, this lavishly illustrated book features so many rarely seen drawings by artists, alongside interviews and essays.

Artists : Eileen Agar, Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Heneage Finch Aylesford, Francis Bacon, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beckmann, William Blake, Pierre Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, André Breton, British School, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Paul Cézanne, Alexander Cozens, Jean Crotti, George Dance, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, John Charles Denham, Marcel Duchamp, Jacob Epstein, Luciano Fabro, Jean Fautrier, Barry Flanagan, John Flaxman, Lucio Fontana, Henry Fuseli, Naum Gabo, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Alberto Giacometti, Natalya Goncharova, Juan Gris, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hepworth, Eva Hesse, William Henry Hunt, Giles Hussey, John William Inchbold, Gwen John, Jasper Johns, John Latham, Fernand Léger, Sol LeWitt, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Piero Manzoni, Brice Marden, André Masson, E.L.T. Mesens, Henri Michaux, John Hamilton Mortimer, Barnett Newman, William Young Ottley, Blinky Palermo, Giuseppe Penone, Francis Picabia, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Elizabeth Rigby, Edward Ruscha, Kurt Schwitters, Albert Seba, Thomas Stothard, James Thornhill, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, George Montard Woodward, Joseph Wright.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eileen Agar Carl Andre Jean Arp Heneage Finch Aylesford Francis Bacon Aubrey Beardsley Max Beckmann William Blake Pierre Bonnard Constantin Brancusi André Breton British School Marcel Broodthaers John Cage Paul Cézanne Alexander Cozens Jean Crotti George Dance Nathaniel Dance-Holland John Charles Denham Marcel Duchamp Jacob Epstein Luciano Fabro Jean Fautrier Barry Flanagan John Flaxman Lucio Fontana Henry Fuseli Naum Gabo Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Alberto Giacometti Natalya Goncharova Juan Gris Richard Hamilton Barbara Hepworth Eva Hesse William Henry Hunt Giles Hussey John William Inchbold Gwen John Jasper Johns John Latham Fernand Léger Sol LeWitt El Lissitzky René Magritte Piero Manzoni Brice Marden André Masson E.L.T. Mesens Henri Michaux John Hamilton Mortimer Barnett Newman William Young Ottley Blinky Palermo Giuseppe Penone Francis Picabia Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth Rigby Edward Ruscha Kurt Schwitters Albert Seba Thomas Stothard James Thornhill Joseph Mallord William Turner Cy Twombly Andy Warhol George Montard Woodward Joseph Wright Catherine De Zegher Avis Newman The Tate Gallery / London Drawing Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Pop Art Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism Minimal Art Conceptual Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

The Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967-78

2021, English / German
Hardcover, 392 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach

$85.00 - Out of stock

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For the first time, the 35 legendary box catalogues of Städtische Museum Mönchengladbach have been published as a book. Museum director Johannes Cladders developed the idea of catalogues in the form of a box with Joseph Beuys in 1967. Understated in their initial appearance, the grey boxes provide an unconventional and pertinent overview of the international vanguard art of the period, including seminal movements such as Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Arte Povera, and Pop Art. Until 1978, Cladders worked closely with exhibiting artists to create such catalogues, which radically re-envisaged the traditional exhibition and museum publication. They embody the participatory approach of their time and instance a vision of a porous democratic work. Viewers are invited to actively participate in this artistic and institutional endeavour and engage both intellectually and physically. Some of the boxes include posters, booklets, documentation and texts, while others comprise multiples.

Artists included are Blinky Palermo, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Hollein, Piero Manzoni, Hanne Darboven, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stanley Brouwn, Brecht/Filliou, Jasper Johns, Richard Long, Panamarenko, James Lee Byars, Braco Dimitrijević, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Giulio Paolini, and Gerhard Richter, among many others.

Researched by Susanne Rennert, designed by Petra Hollenbach, with photographs documenting all catalogues by Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, and introductory essays by Susanne Rennert and Susanne Titz. English and German text.

File under: Jasper Johns Marcel Broodthaers Panamarenko James Lee Byars Gerhard Richter Braco Dimitrijevic Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Hans Hollein Piero Manzoni Richard Long Jannis Kounellis Hanne Darboven Bernd and Hilla Becher Stanley Brouwn George Brecht Robert Filliou Lawrence Weiner Giulio Paolini Susanne Rennert Susanne Titz Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Pop Art

Blinky Palermo
The Complete Editions

2020, English / German
Hardcover, 216 pages, 24.6 x 17.4 cm
Published by Ludwig Museum / Cologne Walther König / Köln

$70.00 - Out of stock

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The German artist Peter Heisterkamp (1943–1977), who named himself after the mafioso Frank “Blinky” Palermo, is known for his objects, installations, and above all for the bright colour fields of his fabric and metal pictures, which supposedly directly illustrate what they conceptually question: the sensual qualities of contemporary painting. Less well known yet no less clever and stimulating are works he created in editions: screen prints and offset prints, lithographs, objects, and a template for painting. Palermo made these editions throughout almost his entire career. They not only reflect his development from the 1960s to his early death in 1977, but also represent a deliberate expansion of his work.

Thanks to a donation from the Cologne collector Ulrich Reininghaus, since 2018 the Museum Ludwig has been the only public institution to have a complete collection of Palermo’s editions. The exhibition catalogue documents the results: it includes an updated version of the out-of-print catalogue raisonné Die gesamte Grafik und alle Auflagenobjekte 1966 bis 1975, published in 1983 by the Munich gallerist and publisher Fred Jahn.

Includes texts by Yilmaz Dziewior, Susanne Küper, Julia Frirdrich, Fred Jahn.

File under: Blinky Palermo Yilmaz Dziewior Susanne Küper Julia Frirdrich Fred Jahn. Ludwig Museum / Cologne Walther König / Köln Painting Minimal Art Conceptual Art Drawing

Silent Friendship : 1960-90's: 7 Artists
Buren, Byars, Cragg, Knoebel, Palermo, Pascali, Penone,

1999, Japanese / English / Italian / German
Hardcover, 120 pages, 20.6 × 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce and beautifully compiled hardcover catalogue published in Japan in 1999 to accompany the unique exhibition, Silent Friendship : 1960-90's: 7 Artists, featuring the work of Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Tony Cragg, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Pino Pascali, and Giuseppe Penone. Generous colour spreads of each artist are accompanied by biographies, exhibition histories and text contributions by and about the artists in their native language(s), including Buren's reflections "In those days Europe", Tony Cragg on "that era" and James Lee Byars, Giuseppe Penone remembering the "cubes, giraffes and weapons of Pino Pascali", Masahiro Aoki on Imi Knoebel, Masao Chatan on Giuseppe Penone, Tomoaki Kitagawa on Tony Cragg the "Material Seeker", Laszlo Glozer and Joseph Beuy's in conversation about Blinky Palermo, and more. Through twenty-six paintings, sculptures and installations the exhibition presented a meaningful overview of the broad scope of the artistic expressions of 7 artists from the 1960s that embodied the theme of the collection, "the art of our time". "Each of them in his own individual way strongly provokes in us new ideas and emotions, suggesting new possibilities for the arts of the next generation." - from the Introduction

Very Good copy.

File under: Pino Pascali Daniel Buren James Lee Byars Tony Cragg Imi Knoebel Blinky Palermo Giuseppe Penone Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Z
Lagerkatalog 1970

1970, German
Softcover, 92 pages, 11 x 17 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Galerie Rudolph Zwirner / Köln

$55.00 - Out of stock

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"Z" is a great, unsuspecting pocketbook from Galerie Rudolph Zwirner in 1970, collecting together a wonderful group of works by 78 artists (Yves Klein, Richard Tuttle, Donald Judd, Cy Twombly, René Magritte, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kenneth Noland, Daniel Spoerri, Frank Stella, Jean Tinguely, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Jasper Johns, Martial Raysse, Dieter Rot, Franz Erhart Walther, Bruno Goller, Morris Louis, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Konrad Klapheck, Lucio Fontana, Blinky Palermo, Hundertwasser, Gerhard Richter, Antoni Tapies, Andy Warhol, George Grosz, Robert Graham, Allen Jones, Henri Michaux, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Oskar Schlemmer, Yves Tanguy, Louis Soutter, Tom Wesselmann, Toyen, Wols, Larry Bell, Dan Flavin, Panamarenko, Sol Lewitt, etc.) across painting, sculpture, drawings, collage and multiples, all reproduced in black and white across this almost entirely visual volume.

Condition: Very good (light wear only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Allen Jones Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Blinky Palermo Bruno Goller Cy Twombly Dan Flavin Daniel Spoerri Dieter Roth Donald Judd Frank Stella Franz Erhard Walther George Grosz Gerhard Richter Henri Michaux Hundertwasser Jasper Johns Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jim Dine Kenneth Noland Konrad Klapheck Larry Bell László Moholy-Nagy Louis Soutter Lucio Fontana Martial Raysse Max Ernst Morris Louis Oskar Schlemmer Otto Dix Panamarenko René Magritte Richard Linder Richard Tuttle Robert Graham Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein Salvador Dalí Sol Lewitt Tom Wesselmann Toyen Wols Yves Klein Yves Tanguy Claes Oldenburg Galerie Rudolph Zwirner / Köln Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Surrealism Fluxus Minimal Art Dada

Blinky Palermo
Werke 1963-1977 / Work 1963-1977

1985, German
Softcover, 157 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

$95.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the great 1985 Blinky Palermo monograph, "Palermo : Werke 1963-1977", wrapped in grass-green covers and published to accompany the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Winterthur 18 September - 11 November, 1984; Kunsthalle Bielefeld 27 January - 17 March, 1985; Stedelijk Museum 30 March - 12 May, 1985. Heavy illustrated throughout with examples of Palermo's work inc. his famed monochromatic, abstract canvases and "fabric paintings", installations, studio, etc, alongside texts by his friend and teacher Joseph Beuys, Laslo Glozer, Bernhard Burgi, and Erich Franz, in German.

Blinky Palermo (2 June 1943 – 18 February 1977) was a German abstract painter.
He adopted his outlandish name in 1964, during his studies with Bruno Goller and Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1962 and 1967. The name refers to Frank "Blinky" Palermo, an American Mafioso and boxing promoter who managed Sonny Liston. In 1969, Palermo moved to Mönchengladbach and set up a studio he would share with Imi Knoebel and Ulrich Rückriem. After a stay in New York in the early 1970s, he moved into Gerhard Richter's former Düsseldorf studio.
Over the course of his 14-year artistic career Palermo tirelessly probed the limits of abstract painting. Having begun his brushwork on more traditional surfaces, he shifted his activity to less conventional supports, experimenting with diverse materials and forms, exploring the relationships that can exist between the wall and the space delimited by the painting. Palermo was best known for his spare monochromatic canvases and "fabric paintings" made from simple lengths of colored material cut, stitched and stretched over a frame. He painted on aluminum, steel, wood, paper and Formica, often making lines out of tape instead of paint. Under Beuys, he became increasingly interested in the organized spatial relationship between form and colour, a polarity which is manifest throughout the rest of his oeuvre. In the mid 1960s, Palermo moved away from conventional rectangular canvases and increasingly opted for surfaces such as the circle, triangle, cruciform, totem pole and even the interior walls of buildings. Between 1964 and 1966, Palermo produced a small series of paintings on canvas in which he experimented with constructivist principles of order. Blinky Palermo died in 1977, aged 33, during a trip to the Maldives.

Good-Very Good - light rubbing edge wear to covers.

File under: Blinky Palermo Joseph Beuys Bernhard Burgi Erich Franz Laszlo Glozer Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

Blinky Palermo
Retrospective 1964-1977

2010, English
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 192 pages, 23.5 x 28.6 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schröder. Texts by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Suzanne Hudson, Susanne Küper, and James Lawrence

The first retrospective in the U.S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo’s brief but significant career and explores each phase, beginning with objects and paintings created shortly after he graduated from Joseph Beuys’s class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the early 1960s and culminating with paintings he produced during his last years in both Germany and New York City.

Palermo’s oeuvre is customarily divided into four principal groupings: the Objects; the Cloth Pictures (Stoffbilder), the in situ Wall Paintings and Drawings, and the late Metal Pictures, including the epic To the People of New York City (1976), now in the collection of Dia Art Foundation. Blinky Palermo also addresses the artist’s works on paper, including watercolors, sketches, preparatory studies, and prints that he made throughout his career.

Essays by distinguished authors position the artist’s work in relation to postwar American art and culture, which he greatly revered. Topics include the influence of the American milieu on the Metal Pictures; space and time in the Wall Drawings and Paintings; and the insights into Palermo’s concerns and process afforded by his works on paper. The most comprehensive volume on Palermo’s career to date, this important book offers a rare opportunity to explore in-depth the work of a remarkably innovative artist, pointing to Palermo’s relevance and influence on a new generation of artists.

Palermo

(Blinky) Palermo (1943–1977) was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig. In 1962, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Bruno Goller and then with Joseph Beuys and, in 1964, appropriated the name Blinky Palermo from the American boxing promoter-cum-mafioso Frank “Blinky” Palermo, famous for managing heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. He has had posthumous retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1984); Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2002); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2007); and Dia:Beacon and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (CCS Bard) (2011).

File under: Blinky Palermo Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Lynne Cooke Suzanne Hudson Susanne Küper James Lawrence Yale University Press / New Haven Art Minimal Art Painting

Blinky Palermo
Abstraction of an Era

2009, English
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 320 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank “Blinky” Palermo. This handsome book—a historical and critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977—explores his significance for postwar and abstract art.

Christine Mehring notes that over the course of Palermo’s brief career he created five concurrent but distinct bodies of work: objects, cloth-pictures, wall-paintings, metal-pictures, and collaborative projects, primarily with his friend and colleague Gerhard Richter. Mehring shows how each of these groups demonstrates Palermo’s efforts to lead German art out of its international isolation and to transform modernist painting into historically resonant abstraction by incorporating artifice, humor, period colors, and play.

(Blinky) Palermo (1943–1977) was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig. In 1962, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Bruno Goller and then with Joseph Beuys and, in 1964, appropriated the name Blinky Palermo from the American boxing promoter-cum-mafioso Frank “Blinky” Palermo, famous for managing heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. He has had posthumous retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1984); Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2002); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2007); and Dia:Beacon and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (CCS Bard) (2011).

File under: Blinky Palermo Christine Mehring Yale University Press / New Haven Art Minimal Art Painting Theory / Essay

René Block
Ich Kenne Kein Weekend. Schriften und Dokumente Seit 1964

2016, English / German
Softcover, 540 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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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. This publication collects writings by and interviews with Block, scanned from their original publications and organized chronologically, as well as an illustrated published history, artist portraits (taken by Block), performance ephemera, bibliography, and more. An enormous book that, via Block, encompasses the work of so many important movements and figures of 1960s - 1990s art.
Although primarily a German language publication, many of the original articles are in English. Regardless of language, the valuable historical listings translate.

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bernhard Hoeke Blinky Palermo Carolee Schneemann Dieter Roth Gerhard Richter Gunther Uecker Henning Christiansen Ivan Wyschnegradsky John Cage Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Konrad Lueg Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers Nam June Paik Percy Grainger Sigmar Polke Terry Fox Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono K. P. Brehmer René Block Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections