World Food Books

The Farm at Black Mountain College

2024, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 24.1 x 17.8 cm
Published by Atelier Editions / Los Angeles

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Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. Through deep original research, this title follows renegade students, faculty & farmers as they establish a campus farm in the 1930s, build a better farm in the 1940s and watch it all collapse in the 1950s. In these engrossing pages, we encounter the extraordinary folk whose endeavours on the land helped shape the Black Mountain College of myth and extraordinary reality.From its founding in 1933 and over its celebrated 23-year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a remarkable number of famous and soon-to-be famous artists, writers and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson and M.C. Richards. The exploits of these BMC cultural luminaries have been recounted time and time again.David Silver’s fascinating new book offers a very different perspective. The farm was vital to BMC. Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance, while serving as a testing ground for self-sufficiency, communal living and collaboration—the most precious and precarious ingredient at the college.

David Silver (born 1968) is professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, hyperlocal food systems and food, culture and storytelling.

File under: Anni Albers Josef Albers Ruth Asawa John Cage Merce Cunningham Willem de Kooning Buckminster Fuller Ray Johnson Charles Olson M.C. Richards David Silver Atelier Editions / Los Angeles Ecology Ecology / Earth Whole Earth / Crafts Art Theory / Essay Textiles Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Painting Ceramics / Glass Sound / Music

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

L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973

1994 / 1998, French
Softcover, 158 pages, 28.7 × 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels

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The great "L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973", first published in Brussels and France in 1994 by Fondation pour l'Architecture and Norma Editions. Long out of print, this comprehensive volume quickly became an invaluable bible of sorts for plastic collectors of the 1960s, 1970s period. In 1994, on the occasion of a major exhibition in Brussels, editors Philippe Decelle, Diane Hennebert, and Pierre Loze compiled the most detailed printed survey of plastic products to date, from Art, Functional Furniture, Fiberglass, Inflatable PVC, Transparent PMMA, Pop and Radical Design, Cookware, Electronics, Mod Fashions, Utopian Architecture. Heavily researched and lavishly illustrated throughout with close to 200 of the finest examples, L’ Utopie has become the standard reference on 1960s plastic design - an essential aid in identifying the designers, companies and manufacture details of many classic plastic objects from this era.

Includes detailed biographies of the artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, plus a chronology and bibliography.

Translated blurb:
"The sixties are marked by unprecedented prosperity and technological progress. To this optimism corresponds an extraordinary freedom of creation until the oil crisis of 1973 which tempers this enthusiasm. The vogue of plastic is linked to this society of abundance. Yellow, red, orange, soft, hard, inflatable, it identifies with cheap, serial and disposable productions. Starting from a private collection unique in the world, the book offers a selection of plastic objects created between 1960 and 1973. Tupperware box, Kelton watch, Courrèges dress, Ettore Sottsass portable typewriter Valentine for Olivetti, first chair of Verner Panton, Joe Colombo ABS plastic chair, Niki de Saint Phalle's Nana, Caesar's Compression, cupola of the United States Pavilion by Richard Buckminster Fuller at the Montreal World's Fair or Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch overhead roof for the stadium of the Olympic Games in Munich, all show their diversity, their spirit and sometimes their beauty of the inventiveness of the time."

Features the work of Pierre Paulin, Sergio Mazza, Vico Magistretti, César, Studio 65, Nicola L, Piero Gilardi, Verner Panton, Arman, Gianfranco Frattini, Jonathan De Pas, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gae Aulenti, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Joe Colombo, Enzo Mari, Iseo Hosoe, Mario Bellini, Dorothée Maurer-Becker, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Günter Beltzig, Maurice Calka, Eero Aarnio, Wendell Castle, Alberto Rosselli, Quasar Khanh, Rossi Molinary, Ennio Lucini, Ugo la Pietra, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Roy Adzak, Studio Gruppo 14, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss, Marco Zanuso, Rodolfo Bonetto, Roger Tallon, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Maneval, Paolo Soleri, Archigram, and many more.

Second edition, published in 1998 on the occasion of Plastiques: Matieres e créér at l'lnstitut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux a la Saline Royale de Arc et Senans-France, October 1997—March 1998. Rare and immediately out-of-print. Very good copy with some light tanning, ageing.

File under: Pierre Paulin Sergio Mazza Vico Magistretti César Studio 65 Nicola L Piero Gilardi Verner Panton Arman Gianfranco Frattini Jonathan De Pas Donato d'Urbino Paolo Lomazzi Gae Aulenti Anna Castelli Ferrieri Joe Colombo Enzo Mari Isao Hosoe Mario Bellini Dorothée Maurer-Becker Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi Günter Beltzig Maurice Calka Eero Aarnio Wendell Castle Alberto Rosselli Quasar Khanh Rossi Molinary Ennio Lucini Ugo la Pietra Ettore Sottsass Superstudio Archizoom Roy Adzak Studio Gruppo 14 Dieter Rams Reinhold Weiss Marco Zanuso Rodolfo Bonetto Roger Tallon Pierre Cardin Courreges Frei Otto Buckminster Fuller Jean Benjamin Maneval Paolo Soleri Archigram Philippe Decelle Diane Hennebert Pierre Loze Fondation pour l'Architecture / Brussels Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Arte Povera Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

A Something Else Reader

2022, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 15 x 23.5 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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A Something Else Reader is a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms. The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days, John Cage’s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein’s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter’s I’ve Left, Wolf Vostell’s Dé-coll/age Happenings, Al Hansen’s A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art, and other projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, André Thomkins, and Richard Meltzer, among others. An annotated checklist assembled by Hugh Fox and Higgins’s unpublished introduction are also included.

Perhaps no other publisher in the 60s influenced artists’ books more than Something Else Press. Higgins had a firm vision that radical art could be housed in book form and distributed throughout the world and he worked endlessly to cultivate new works that challenged conventional notions of both contemporary art and books. While other presses created extraordinary publications, none were able to achieve the breadth of titles and artists like Higgins, who successfully ran Something Else Press until 1974 in a manner that resembled a more traditional paperback publisher. Oddly, Higgins hadn’t intended to publish A Something Else Reader himself. Instead, in 1972, he assembled the table of contents and an introduction into a proposal that he then pitched to Random House. They eventually rejected the title and encouraged Higgins to publish it, but before he could do that, Something Else Press went out of business, and the dreams of the anthology evaporated. From there, the proposal went into Higgins’s archive, where it was found by scholar and curator Alice Centamore, who compiled the works and assembled A Something Else Reader.

Eleanor Antin, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Augusto de Campos, Clark Coolidge, Philip Corner, William Brisbane Dick, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh Fox, Buckminster Fuller, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Jan J. Herman, Dick Higgins, Åke Hodell, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Kitasono Katue, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Ruth Krauss, Jackson Mac Low, Robert K. Macadam, Toby MacLennan, Hansjörg Mayer, Charles McIlvaine, Richard Meltzer, Manfred Mohr, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Charles Platt, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Ellen Solt, Daniel Spoerri, Gertrude Stein, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams are all included in A Something Else Reader.

Dick Higgins was an American artist, composer, theorist, poet, and publisher, as well as a co-founder of Fluxus. After attending Yale and Columbia Universities and receiving a BA in English, he graduated from the Manhattan School of Printing. He studied music composition with Henry Cowell, attended John Cage’s course in experimental music at The New School, and participated in the inaugural Fluxus activities in Europe from Fall 1962 to Summer 1963. He founded Something Else Press in 1963 and in 1972, he founded Unpublished Editions (later renamed Published Editions). Over the course of his life, Higgins wrote and edited forty-seven books.

File under: Claes Oldenburg John Cage Jackson Mac Low Bern Porter Wolf Vostell Al Hansen Robert Filliou Alison Knowles Nam June Paik Philip Corner Daniel Spoerri André Thomkins Richard Meltzer Eleanor Antin George Brecht Pol Bury William Brisbane Dick Albert M. Fine Ian Hamilton Finlay Hugh Fox Buckminster Fuller Eugen Gomringer Brion Gysin Richard Hamilton Jan J. Herman Dick Higgins Åke Hodell Ray Johnson Allan Kaprow Kitasono Katue Bengt af Klintberg Richard Kostelanetz Ruth Krauss Robert K. Macadam Toby MacLennan Hansjörg Mayer Charles McIlvaine Manfred Mohr Pauline Oliveros Benjamin Patterson Charles Platt Dieter Roth Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Mary Ellen Solt Gertrude Stein Richard Meltzer Emmett Williams Clark Coolidge Augusto de Campos Aram Saroyan Albert M. Fine Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art Sound / Music

Anni Albers : On Designing

1976, English
Softcover, 82 pages, 20.5 x 20.5 cm
Out of print title / used / average
Published by Wesleyan University Press / US

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Scarce second printing from 1976 of Anni Albers's pioneering book of essays "On Designing", published by Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut. On Designing (1961) was the first book by Albers, one of the leading modernist designers of the 20th century, and featured an important collection of her illustrated texts on textile design, weaving, the bauhaus, textiles in art and architecture, and more.

Anni Albers (1899—1994) was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin, in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she met her husband, Josef Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black Mountain College. This beautifully illustrated book addresses the artistic and practical concerns of modern design and considers the ever-changing role of the designer.

Albers's work is in private collections and in those of leading museums both here and abroad. Among them are the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich, the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.

Average copy with general wear, small repaired closed tear to bottom of front cover, small coffee stain to bottom corner, some underlining throughout.

File under: Anni Albers Josef Albers Buckminster Fuller Anni Albers Wesleyan University Press / US Minimal Art Textiles Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Art Bauhaus

Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs

1968, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Architectural Press / London

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First edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London.

Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing with a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."

This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."

Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.

Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.

Text in English and German.

Very good copy, with original Gio Ponti dust-jacket protected under mylar wrap. Light wear/tan/dust to edges.

File under: Gio Ponti Buckminster Fuller Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Le Corbusier Wim Crouwel Total Design Vittorio Gregotti Eero Saarinen Angelo Mangiarotti Will Burtin Charles and Ray Eames Paolo Nestler Henri Kay Henrion Rolf Gutbrod Xenakis Frei Otto Ulf Linde Per-Olof Ultvedt Walter Kuhn Ettore Sottsass Wolfgang Clasen Architectural Press / London Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. 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.

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.

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 Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Shelter

1973, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 27 x 38 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shelter Publishing / California

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First printing of the great "Shelter", from 1973.

From the early days of the environmental movement that began in the 1970s, this book attempted to find "a responsive & sensitive balance between the still-usable skills & wisdom of the past & the sustainable products & inventions of the 20th century. About simple homes, natural materials, & human resourcefulness."

Shelter is many things — a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material.

First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses.

By the same guys who brought you the earlier "Domebook" 1 and 2, this is a wonderful design resource, illustrated with black-and-white & color photographs, sketches, & plans throughout.

The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment — with fascinating, often surprising results.

"It's an inspiring celebration of indigenous, handmade, personal-statement building. Oughta be the first book a freshman architecture student sees." — J. Baldwin, Whole Earth Review

"It's time to educate the architects. To that extent this book on shakes and wattle and daub is the most revolutionary architecture book around..." — Architecture in Australia

Very Good with light wear. Rarely seen in first edition is such condition,

File under: Antfarm Buckminster Fuller Bob Easton Lloyd Kahn Shelter Publishing / California Architecture / Interior Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Ecology Ecology / Earth Counterculture

Space Colonies
Edited by Stewart Brand

1977, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 27.5 x 18.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Penguin Books / London

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Cyber-communard and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand's 1977 visionary compendium, "Space Colonies". A special book edition of Brand's legendary CoEvolution Quarterly, Space Colonies took up the question of whether space might be colonized by the year 2000, going to where no media on the subject of space travel has gone before. A visionary and controversial assemblage of articles, illustrations, information and opinions on space colonies, inspired by the culture of the Whole Earth Catalog, with contributions from Buckminster Fuller, Richard Brautigan, Ant Farm, Carl Sagan, Lynn Margulis, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, David Browner, Paolo Soleri, Eric Drexler, Rusty Schweickart, and many more... interviews with Jacques Cousteau, Gerard O'Neill, Carl Sagan, Lynn Margulis, and many more, all organized into three sections - Vision, Debate and Space.

"This book is about how to take Space personally. Gerard O'Neill's vision of Space Colonies has turned the universe inside out for people. Instead of seeing the space program as a "boondoggle for scientists" (Herman Kahn), suddenly they can see Space as a path, or at least a metaphor, for their own liberation. And those who are critics of high technology — who abound in this book — can leverage their arguments from Space industrialization as the quintessence of what they are fighting. What's new is that people are extrapolating from the future and outside instead of just from the past and inside."

Very Good copy, with some light tanning/wear.

File under: Paolo Soleri Buckminster Fuller Ant Farm Stewart Brand Jacques Cousteau Gerard O'Neill Carl Sagan Lynn Margulis Richard Brautigan Wendell Berry Gary Snyder David Browner Paolo Soleri Eric Drexler Rusty Schweickart Penguin Books / London Ecology Theory / Essay Art Architecture / Interior Health Counterculture Ecology / Earth Out-of-print / Rare Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Fantastic Architecture

2015, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 13 x 20 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Primary Information reprint of the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, first published in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys. It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, GerhardRühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

File under: Dick Higgins Wolf Vostell Ay-O Joseph Beuys Erich Buchholz Pol Bury John Cage Philip Corner Jan Dibbets Robert Filliou Buckminster Fuller Geoffrey Hendricks Richard Hamilton Raoul Hausmann Michael Heizer Jan Jacob Herman Bici Hendricks K.H. Hoedicke Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Addi Koepcke Franz Mon Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Gerhard Rühm Dieter Rot Carolee Schneemann Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Frances Starr Jean Tinguely Ben Vautier Lawrence Weiner Stefan Wewerka Primary Information / New York Architecture / Interior Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

EXHIBITIONS
A SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS

1961, English
Hardcover, 252 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

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First scarce hardcover edition of EXHIBITIONS: A SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS, published by Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1961.

Wonderful collectable clothbound survey of the best (c. 1961) international exhibition design, profusely illustrated with 593 annotated photographs, scale drawings, and architectural plans, of museum exhibits, furniture fairs, world expo pavilions, and much more, with text by Klaus Franck. Discussions include construction, lighting techniques and materials. Also includes a directory of the architects and designers of the 130 presented exhibits from 16 countries, including Good Design (MoMA and The Merchandise Mart, Chicago), documenta '55 and documenta II '59, XI Triennale di Milano (Swiss section, Section of Industrial Design, Finnish section, Japanese section, Compasso d'Oro, and Exhibition of the School of Design, Ulm), San Francisco Showroom of the Herman Miller Furniture Company, San Francisco and Milan Knoll Showrooms, New York Showroom of the Olivetti Corporation, and World's Fair Brussels (Japanese Pavilion, Brazilian Pavilion, Finnish Pavilion, Yugoslav Pavilion, Swiss Pavilion, and more). Designers and architects include Oskar Blase, Max Bill, Gyorgy Kepes, Richard Hamilton, Luciano Baldessari, Vittoriano Vigano, Arnold Bode, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Timo Sarpaneva, Charles and Ray Eames, Paul Rudolph, Alexander Girard, Arthur Drexler, Tapio Wirkkala, Will Burtin, Peter Blake, Florence Knoll, Bruno Munari, Walter Kuhn, Rolf Volhard, Studio Architetti, Richard Buckminster Fuller and George Nelson and Company.

Good ex-library copy, without dust jacket.

File under: Oskar Blase Max Bill Gyorgy Kepes Richard Hamilton Luciano Baldessari Vittoriano Vigano Arnold Bode Achille Castiglioni Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Timo Sarpaneva Charles Eames Ray Eames Paul Rudolph Alexander Girard Arthur Drexler Tapio Wirkkala Will Burtin Peter Blake Florence Knoll Bruno Munari Walter Kuhn Rolf Volhard Studio Architetti Buckminster Fuller George Nelson Klaus Franck Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Architecture / Interior Art Curatorial Furniture Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

EXHIBITIONS, EXHIBITS, INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE FAIRS

English, 1968
Hardcover, 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

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First US edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London and Praeger in New York.

Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing wit a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."

This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."

Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.

Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.

Text in English and German.

Good ex-library copy, without dust jacket.

File under: Gio Ponti Buckminster Fuller Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Le Corbusier Wim Crouwel Total Design Vittorio Gregotti Eero Saarinen Angelo Mangiarotti Will Burtin Charles and Ray Eames Paolo Nestler Henri Kay Henrion Rolf Gutbrod Xenakis Frei Otto Ulf Linde Per-Olof Ultvedt Walter Kuhn Ettore Sottsass Wolfgang Clasen Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography

Graphis Posters 73

1973, English / German / French
Hardcover, 240 pages, 24 x 30.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Graphis Press / Zürich

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The first (and best) 1973 edition of the great Graphis Posters book series. Published by The Graphis Press in Zürich, this profusely illustrated, cloth-bound volume continues one of the world's leading design showcases. Each Graphis Posters Annual volume profiles in colour and black and white the best poster design of that year. Profusely illustrated across 240 pages, with 845 b/w and colour examples, and, as per usual for Graphis publications, handsomely designed and heavily researched, with all texts in English, German and French. Edited by Swiss graphic design Walter Herdeg with an introduction by Pierre Restany.

Features the work of : Milton Glaser, Herb Lubalin, Jan Lenica, Les Mason, Sarah Moon, Seymour Chwast, Alan Aldridge, Horst Antes, Dick Bruna, Jean Widmer, Roman Cieslewicz, Ivan Chermayeff, Jean Michel Folon, Tomi Ungerer, Tadanori Yokoo, Shigeo Fukuda, Nicole Claveloux, Max Ernst, Eduardo Chillida, Hans Erni, Paul Davis, Kishin Shinoyama, Georgia O'Keefe, Karl Neubacher, Waldemar Swierzy, Hans Frei, David Hockney, Celestino Piatti, Mordillo, Akira Uno, Massmimo Vignelli, Paul Wunderlich, Victor Varsarley, Raymond Savignac, Ronald Searle, Etienne Delessert, Sam Haskins, David Hamilton, Peter Knapp, Buckminster Fuller, Frieder Grindler, Holger Matthies, Art Kane, Gunther Kieser, Roy Lichtenstein, Push Pin Studios, Paul Davis, Roland Topor, Ernest Trova, Joan Miro, Peter Max, Tadashi Masuda, Michael English, Gottschalk + Ash, Ikko Tanaka, Shigeo Okamoto, and hundreds more.

Very Good copy with only light wear, no dust jacket.

File under: Milton Glaser Herb Lubalin Jan Lenica Les Mason Sarah Moon Seymour Chwast Alan Aldridge Horst Antes Dick Bruna Jean Widmer Ivan Chermayeff Tomi Ungerer Tadanori Yokoo Shigeo Fukuda Nicole Claveloux Max Ernst Eduardo Chillida Hans Erni Paul Davis Kishin Shinoyama Karl Neubacher Waldemar Swierzy Hans Frei David Hockney Celestino Piatti Mordillo Akira Uno Massmimo Vignelli Paul Wunderlich Victor Varsarley Raymond Savignac Ronald Searle Etienne Delessert Sam Haskins David Hamilton Peter Knapp Buckminster Fuller Frieder Grindler Holger Matthies Art Kane Gunther Kieser Roy Lichtenstein Push Pin Studios Roland Topor Ernest Trova Joan Miro Peter Max Tadashi Masuda Michael English Ikko Tanaka Shigeo Okamoto Jean-Michel Folon Alan Fletcher Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes Colin Forbes Gottschalk + Ash Roman Cieślewicz Georgia O'Keeffe Pierre Restany The Graphis Press / Zürich Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare

DOMUS
No. 294 Maggio 1954

1954, Italian / English
Softcover, 84 pages, 32.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editoriale Domus / Milan

$40.00 $20.00 - Out of stock

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Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal, distributed in 89 countries. With exuberant style and rigor, it offered energetic up-to-date coverage and analysis of major themes, developments and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone," domus has always been considered the most concrete published expression of Italian style, documenting generations of radical, practical, and beautiful production, both local and across the world. Amongst a seemingly endless archive of contributions and features, domus frequently covered the works of the protagonists of the Anti and Radical Design movements, modern architecture, new experiments in environmental/spatial/commercial design, international product design, the activities of the Arte Povera, Pop art, Minimal Art and Nouveau Réalisme movements, and much more.

domus No. 294 maggio 1954
Editor : Gio Ponti

features :
Architecture by Giuseppe Mario Oliveri, Gino Levi-Montalcini, Craig Ellwood, Richard Neutra, Buckminster Fuller; Olivetti; French kitchens; interiors/furniture/object/industrial design by George Nelsen, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Leonardo Fiori, Enrico Taglietti, Gianfranco Frattini, Gion Ponti, Carlo Mangani, Ettore Sottsass jnr., Giorgio Madini, Carlo Mollino, Marco Zanuso, Ignazio Gardeila, Giulio Minoletti, Franco Berlanda, Sergio J. Hutter, Carlo de Carli, Charlotte Perriand, Paul Kjaerholm; the work of Olivier Strebelle, Graziano Gasparini, Gio Ponti, Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, and much more.

Beautifully printed in Italy and heavily illustrated throughout with vivid colour and black and white photography across multiple paper stocks.

Good copy with usual tanning and edge wear, spine flaking. Occasional light moisture wear to some pages, not many.

File under: Richard Neutra Craig Ellwood Buckminster Fuller Olivetti Ettore Sottsass Giuseppe Mario Oliveri Gino Levi-Montalcini Olivier Strebelle Graziano Gasparini Gio Ponti Milton Avery Adolph Gottlieb Robert Motherwell William Baziotes Luigi Caccia Dominioni Leonardo Fiori Enrico Taglietti Gianfranco Frattini Carlo Mangani Giorgio Madini Carlo Mollino Marco Zanuso Giulio Minoletti Franco Berlanda Sergio J. Hutter Carlo de Carli Charlotte Perriand Poul Kjærholm George Nelson Ignazio Gardella Editoriale Domus / Milan Furniture Anarchism Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare SALE Art

Support Structures
Céline Condorelli (Ed.)

2009, English
Softcover, 438 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm
2nd Edition,
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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2015 re-print of this fantastic and hugely popular book from 2009.

Essays by Bart De Baere, Céline Condorelli, Mark Cousins, Wouter Davidts, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Andrea Phillips, Jaime Stapleton, Jan Verwoert, Eyal Weizman & Rony Brauman

With works by Michael Asher, Artist Placement Group, Can Altay, Conrad Atkinson, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Banu Cennetoglu, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Martin Beck, Cevdet Erek, Andrea Fraser, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, Ella Gibbs, Frederick Kiesler, Lucy Kimbell, James Langdon, El Lissitzky, Peter Nadin, The offices of Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince & Robin Winters,” Gordon Matta-Clark, Antoni Muntadas, Lilly Reich, Support Structure, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Carey Young, a.o.

Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: it is a manual for those things that give support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world.

Support Structures is a critical enquiry into what constitutes “support,” and documents the collaborative project “Support Structure” by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade. While registering and collecting reference projects in a new archive of support structures alongside its ten-phase project, different writers, thinkers, and practitioners were invited from various fields to elaborate on frameworks and work on texts , which form the theoretical backbone of the publication. The collection of contributions offers different possibilities for engaging in this unchartered territory, from propositions to projects, existing systems to ones invented for specific creative processes.

Support Structures offers support through potential methodologies, inspirations and activations for practice, and addresses important questions for art and architecture practices on forms of display, organization, articulation, appropriation, autonomy, and temporariness, and the manifestations of blindness towards them.

Produced in co-production with Support Structure:
Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade with James Langdon
www.supportstructures.org

Design by James Langdon

File under: Adam Broomberg Andrea Fraser Antoni Muntadas Artist Placement Group Buckminster Fuller Can Altay Carey Young Cevdet Erek Christopher D’Arcangelo Christopher Williams Coleen Fitzgibbon Conrad Atkinson El Lissitzky Ella Gibbs Frederick Kiesler Gordon Matta-Clark James Langdon Jenny Holzer Lawrence Weiner Lilly Reich Lonnie van Brummelen Lucy Kimbell Martin Beck Michael Asher Oliver Chanarin Peter Nadin Richard Prince Rirkrit Tiravanija Robin Winters Ryan Gander Siebren de Haan Banu Cennetoğlu Andrea Phillips Bart De Baere Céline Condorelli Eyal Weizman Jaime Stapleton Jan Verwoert Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Mark Cousins Rony Brauman Wouter Davidts Sternberg Press / Berlin Architecture / Interior Art Theory / Essay

Charas: Improbable Dome Builders
Buckminster Fuller

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Pioneer Works Press / New York

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Introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Text by Syeus Mottel. Interview by Ben Estes.

In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves “CHARAS.” After a few hours, they found themselves having an earnest and important conversation, and the young men of CHARAS decided to begin implementing Bucky’s ideas. They wanted to create a program that would develop a sense of community autonomy, reclaim public space and give their lives a newfound sense of purpose. Following a period of intensive study of solid geometry, spherical trigonometry and principles of dome building, all led by Michael Ben-Eli, CHARAS constructed a geodesic dome on a vacant lot in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge.

Originally published in 1973 and now published in an expanded edition, Charas: The Improbable Dome Builders is an intimate portrait in pictures and words of these dynamic young men and their community. The first half chronicles the trials and tribulations of building the dome, their intensive training, search for funding, accidental fires, holiday potlucks and Bucky visiting to see their incredible work. The second half contains interviews with the members of CHARAS and their friends, sharing personal stories of their time on the streets, as gang leaders, drug addicts, serving time in prison and finding a new sense of self and community through the applied philosophies of Buckminster Fuller. This richly-illustrated edition also includes a new interview with Michael Ben-Eli looking back on the project four decades later.

File under: Buckminster Fuller Pioneer Works Press / New York Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay

L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973

1994, French
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 158 pages, 28.7 × 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Norma Editions / Paris

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first French edition of "L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973", published in 1994 by the great Norma Editions. Long out of print, this comprehensive volume quickly became an invaluable bible of sorts for plastic collectors of the 1960s, 1970s period. In 1994, on the occasion of a major exhibition in Brussels, editors Philippe Decelle, Diane Hennebert, and Pierre Loze compiled the most detailed printed survey of plastic products to date, from Art, Functional Furniture, Fiberglass, Inflatable PVC, Transparent PMMA, Pop and Radical Design, Cookware, Electronics, Mod Fashions, Utopian Architecture. Heavily researched and lavishly illustrated throughout with close to 200 of the finest examples, L’ Utopie has become the standard reference on 1960s plastic design - an essential aid in identifying the designers, companies and manufacture details of many classic plastic objects from this era.

Includes detailed biographies of the artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, plus a chronology and bibliography.

Translated blurb:
"The sixties are marked by unprecedented prosperity and technological progress. To this optimism corresponds an extraordinary freedom of creation until the oil crisis of 1973 which tempers this enthusiasm. The vogue of plastic is linked to this society of abundance. Yellow, red, orange, soft, hard, inflatable, it identifies with cheap, serial and disposable productions. Starting from a private collection unique in the world, the book offers a selection of plastic objects created between 1960 and 1973. Tupperware box, Kelton watch, Courrèges dress, Ettore Sottsass portable typewriter Valentine for Olivetti, first chair of Verner Panton, Joe Colombo ABS plastic chair, Niki de Saint Phalle's Nana, Caesar's Compression, cupola of the United States Pavilion by Richard Buckminster Fuller at the Montreal World's Fair or Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch overhead roof for the stadium of the Olympic Games in Munich, all show their diversity, their spirit and sometimes their beauty of the inventiveness of the time."

Features the work of Pierre Paulin, Sergio Mazza, Vico Magistretti, César, Studio 65, Nicola L, Piero Gilardi, Verner Panton, Arman, Gianfranco Frattini, Jonathan De Pas, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gae Aulenti, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Joe Colombo, Enzo Mari, Iseo Hosoe, Mario Bellini, Dorothée Maurer-Becker, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Günter Beltzig, Maurice Calka, Eero Aarnio, Wendell Castle, Alberto Rosselli, Quasar Khanh, Rossi Molinary, Ennio Lucini, Ugo la Pietra, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Roy Adzak, Studio Gruppo 14, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss, Marco Zanuso, Rodolfo Bonetto, Roger Tallon, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Maneval, Paolo Soleri, Archigram, and many more.

Fine copy!

File under: Pierre Paulin Sergio Mazza Vico Magistretti César Studio 65 Nicola L Piero Gilardi Verner Panton Arman Gianfranco Frattini Jonathan De Pas Donato d'Urbino Paolo Lomazzi Gae Aulenti Anna Castelli Ferrieri Joe Colombo Enzo Mari Isao Hosoe Mario Bellini Dorothée Maurer-Becker Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi Günter Beltzig Maurice Calka Eero Aarnio Wendell Castle Alberto Rosselli Quasar Khanh Rossi Molinary Ennio Lucini Ugo la Pietra Ettore Sottsass Superstudio Archizoom Roy Adzak Studio Gruppo 14 Dieter Rams Reinhold Weiss Marco Zanuso Rodolfo Bonetto Roger Tallon Pierre Cardin Courreges Frei Otto Buckminster Fuller Jean Benjamin Maneval Paolo Soleri Archigram Norma Editions / Paris Architecture / Interior Art Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Furniture Arte Povera Pop Art Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE

1970, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 200 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First US edition of this seminal, now very collectable book, "Fantastic Architecture", published in 1970 by Something Else Press, New York (and first published in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German with the title "Pop Architektur". Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, GerhardRühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

Very Good copy of the first English edition, with Very Good dust jacket and all mylar pages intact.

File under: Dieter Rot Ay-O Joseph Beuys Erich Buchholz Pol Bury John Cage Philip Corner Jan Dibbets Robert Filliou Buckminster Fuller Geoffrey Hendricks Richard Hamilton Raoul Hausmann Michael Heizer Jan Jacob Herman Bici Hendricks Dick Higgins K.H. Hoedicke Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Addi Koepcke Franz Mon Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Gerhard Rühm Carolee Schneemann Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Frances Starr Jean Tinguely Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Lawrence Weiner Stefan Wewerka Something Else Press / New York Art Pop Art Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Fluxus Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare

Black Mountain : An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 –1957

2015, English
Softcover (w. printed plastic jacket), 464 pages, 18.5 x 24 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Out-of-print English edition.

The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The first rector of the school was John Andrew Rice, and Josef Albers, John Cage, Walter Gropius, and Buckminster Fuller were among the many adepts to give courses here. In consequence, BMC witnessed the development of a range of avant-garde concepts. This richly illustrated book appeared in conjunction with a Black Mountain exhibition ( 5 June – 27 September 2015, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin). It is the first comprehensive publication on BMC in the German-speaking world and traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.

File under: Buckminster Fuller John Cage Josef Albers Walter Gropius Spector Books / Leipzig Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
by Reyner Banham

1984, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 18 x 18.2 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

File under: Olivetti Louis Kahn Renzo Piano Mike Webb Richard Rogers Pietro Franchini Charles Eames Walter Gropius Richard Neutra Marco Zanuso Marcel Breuer Pierre Chareau Buckminster Fuller Finn Juhl Charles Rennie Mackintosh Paolo Soleri Gerrit Rietveld Mies van der Rohe Rudolph Schindler Bruno Taut Reyner Banham Adolf Loos University of Chicago Press / Chicago Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay

Great Circles, or How to Build Your Own Dome Home
by Rupert and Felicity Glover

1972, English
Softcover (die-cut), 48 pages, 21 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Alister Taylor / Wellington

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Published in 1972 by Alister Taylor, Wellington, New Zealand, "Great Circles, or How to Build Your Own Dome Home" is one of the finest, and scarcest, books published on building a geodesic dome house.

Written by Rupert and Felicity Glover, this heavily visual volume (wonderfully photographed and complete with templates) traces, step-by-step, their personal process in building a geodesic dome house to counter the burdens building and property regulations were imposing on New Zealand residents (and residents all over the world to this day).

"[...] This is a book which tells you how to beat them at their own game by building the most efficient structure, in terms of a space-materials ratio, yet discovered. In short, this is a housing plan for the alternative society. In it we describe for you a geodesic dome we built ourselves in the summer of 1971-72. It took us six weeks, it cost us about $1500, and it's beautiful. You could build it faster, for at no time did we have more than two people working on it, and you could build it cheaper, by using demolition materials and having your own workshop. But the main thing is that you can build it and they don't make a cent out of it. This is a chance to use the ingenuity which keeps the alternative society going. If they have rules, break them only as a last resort. It is much better to find ways of making them inappropriate or irrelevant. By building a dome you can do just this. This book gives you simple but full instructions for making a geodesic dome. The dome was invented by the visionary genius, R. Buckminster Fuller, who refers to this planet as "Spaceship Earth", and remarks that it didn't come with an instruction book. We have used some of Fuller's ideas, some from other people, and some of our own. We expect you to do the same, because this book makes no rules. It tells how to do something that we have done, but it certainly does not say you must do it the way we did. If someone doesn't improve at least some of our methods, we shall be disappointed. We have deliberately kept the book simple, thinking that bullshit would be a hindrance rather than a help, but we have included one chapter on the mathematics of the geodesic dome for those of you who want to upset our ideas completely but don't own a computer. [...]"

First and only edition.

File under: Buckminster Fuller Alister Taylor / Wellington Architecture / Interior Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare

The Plastics Architect
Arthur Quarmby (Ed.)

1974, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 25 x 21cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Pall Mall Press / London

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Scarce title, "The Plastics Architect" by Arthur Quarmby was published in 1974 by Pall Mall Press, London.
This richly illustrated and heavily researched volume is broken up into chapters: Materials History; Materials, Fabrication Technology, Historical Applications; Spatial Enclosures; Component Construction; Sculptural Applications; Prospective Work. Throughout the examples of international developments in the use of plastics in architecture, included is the work of Archigram, Aldo Rossi, Donatella Mazzoleni, Reyner Banham, Paolo Soleri, Masayuki Kurokawa, Frei Otto, Jean Prouvé, Haus-Rucker-Co, Gernot Nalbach, Christo, Alberto Longoni, R. Buckminster Fuller, Wolfgang Döring, Jean Manéval, Pascal Häusermann, Claude Häusermann, Yutaka Murata, Renzo Piano, Kenzo Tange, Rudolf Doernach, Jean-Louis Chanéac, John Zerning, David Greene, and many many others. Arthur Quarmby's own incredible architectural projects are here in abundance as well.

"This book includes a history of the discovery of different types of plastics, and a valuable chapter on materials technology which investigates the molecular structure of different plastics materials and indicates the extent of their applicability. As a basic understanding of the structure and properties of plastic materials is necessary to the designer, so a knowledge of the principal manufacturing processes is essential if designs are to be produced which are capable of being put into production [...] This stimulating work will be essential for anyone interested in plastics, architecture and the future environment."

Condition: Very Good (Clean tight copy in original dust jacket protected under plastic - catalogue sticker to cover) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Alberto Longoni Aldo Rossi Archigram Arthur Quarmby Christo Claude Häusermann David Greene Donatella Mazzoleni Frei Otto Gernot Nalbach Haus-Rucker-Co Jean-Louis Chanéac Jean Manéval Jean Prouvé John Zerning Kenzo Tange Masayuki Kurokawa Paolo Soleri Pascal Häusermann Renzo Piano Reyner Banham Rudolf Doernach Wolfgang Döring Yutaka Murata Buckminster Fuller Arthur Quarmby Pall Mall Press / London Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Hippie Modernism
The Struggle for Utopia

2016, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 29.7 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Published by Walker Art Center
Edited with text by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by Greg Castillo, Esther Choi, Alison Clarke, Hugh Dubberly, Ross Elfline, Craig Peariso, Tina Rivers Ryan, Catharine Rossi, Simon Sadler, Felicity Scott, Lorraine Wild with David Karwan. Interviews by Adam Gildar, Susan Snodgrass, Elizabeth Glass.

"Hippie Modernism" examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus-Rucker-Co and ONYX; the installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills, Mark Boyle, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as "Oz" and "The Whole Earth Catalog"; books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including: Gerd Stern of USCO; Ken Isaacs; Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co; Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX; Franco Raggi of Global Tools; Tony Martin; Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City; as well as new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

Huge, generous and vividly illustrated volume!

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