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Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

$180.00 - In stock -

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

Art Povera
Conceptual, Actual or Impossible Art? Germano Celant (Ed.)

1969, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 21 x 22 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

$250.00 - Out of stock

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First US printing of "Art Povera", the now legendary critical/photographic book by Germano Celant (Italian art historian, critic and curator) documenting the so-called "Art Povera /Arte Povera" movement (meaning "poor art", coined by Celant in 1967) and published by Studio Vista, London in 1969 and Praeger, New York, the same year.

Includes profiles of major artists of the movement, including a short text followed by pages of full-page photographs for each artist.

Artists featured: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

"This book does not aim at being an objective and general analysis of the phenomenon of art or life, but is rather an attempt to flank (both art and life) as accomplices of the changes and attitudes in the development of their daily becoming. This book does not attempt to be objective since the awareness of objectivity is false consciousness. The book, made up of photographs and written documents, bases its critical and editorial assumptions on the knowledge that criticism and iconographic documents give limited vision and partial perception of artistic work. The book, when it reproduces the documents of artistic work, refutes the linguistic mediation of photography. The book, even though it wants to avoid the logic of consumption, is a consumer's item. ... This book produces a collection of already old material. ... In this book there is no need to reflect in order to seek a unitary and reassuring value, immediately refuted by the the authors themselves, rather there is the necessity to look into it for the changes, limits, precariousness and instability of artistic work." -- text from Celant's introduction "Stating That."

File under: Walter de Maria Stephen Kaltenbach Richard Long Mario Merz Douglas Huebler Joseph Beuys Eva Hesse Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Lawrence Weiner Luciano Fabro Bruce Nauman Joseph Kosuth Jan Dibbets Giovanni Anselmo Robert Barry Pier Paolo Calzolari Dennis Oppenheim Barry Flanagan Robert Smithson Giulio Paolini Reiner Ruthenbeck Alighiero Boetti Giuseppe Penone Franz Erhard Walther Hans Haacke Gilberto Zorio Robert Morris Marinus Boezem Carl Andre Emilio Prini Richard Serra Michelangelo Pistoletto Germano Celant Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Sonsbeek '72

1972, English / Dutch
3 books, softcover, approx 360 photo cards, 13.5 x 17 cm
Ed of 700 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$280.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce, incredible Sonsbeek '72 complete 3 volume catalogue set, published in a limited edition of 700 copies by Sonsbeek, Arnhem, 1972. The tripartite catalogue arose from the notes and photos made of an important group exhibition where artists submitted installation or performance pieces, executed during the period November '71 - June '72. Each volume forms an alphabetical index of artist photographic cards (#1 A-H, #2 I-R, #3 S-Z), totalling approx. 360, each with the data of their artwork on the front and photographic documentation on the verso. Very beautifully executed.

Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Daniel Buren, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Edward Ruscha, Wim T. Schippers, Lawrence Weiner, Tenjo Sajiki, Michael Snow, Kenneth Snelson, Eric Siegel, Paul Sharits, Wim Crouwel, Yokoyama, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Jack Moore, Yutaka Mutsuzawa, Peter Kubelka, Hans Koetsier, Ken Jacobs, Walter de Maria, Dan Graham, Hanne Darboven, Marinus Boezem.

Very Good copies each, with light wear, spine tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Carl Andre Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Marinus Boezem Daniel Buren Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Ad Dekkers Ger van Elk Hans Eykelboom Barry Flanagan Hollis Frampton Dan Graham Douglas Huebler Donald Judd On Kawara Sol LeWitt Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Panamarenko Edward Ruscha Wim T. Schippers Lawrence Weiner Tenjo Sajiki Michael Snow Kenneth Snelson Eric Siegel Paul Sharits Wim Crouwel Yokoyama Claes Oldenburg Bruce Nauman Robert Morris Jack Moore Yutaka Mutsuzawa Peter Kubelka Hans Koetsier Hanne Darboven Ken Jacobs Paul Bonger Rick Vermeulen Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Art Povera : Conceptual, Actual or Impossible Art?
Edited by Germano Celant

1969, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio Vista / London

$320.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1969 printing of the seminal "Art Povera", the phenomenal and now legendary critical/photographic book by the great Italian art historian, critic and curator Germano Celant (1940—2020) that internationally established the so-called Art Povera / Arte Povera movement (meaning "poor art", coined by Celant in 1967) and published by Studio Vista, London and printed in Italy.

Includes profiles of major artists of the movement, including a short text followed by pages of full-page photographs for each artist. Artists featured: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

"This book does not aim at being an objective and general analysis of the phenomenon of art or life, but is rather an attempt to flank (both art and life) as accomplices of the changes and attitudes in the development of their daily becoming. This book does not attempt to be objective since the awareness of objectivity is false consciousness. The book, made up of photographs and written documents, bases its critical and editorial assumptions on the knowledge that criticism and iconographic documents give limited vision and partial perception of artistic work. The book, when it reproduces the documents of artistic work, refutes the linguistic mediation of photography. The book, even though it wants to avoid the logic of consumption, is a consumer's item. ... This book produces a collection of already old material. ... In this book there is no need to reflect in order to seek a unitary and reassuring value, immediately refuted by the the authors themselves, rather there is the necessity to look into it for the changes, limits, precariousness and instability of artistic work." — text from Celant's introduction "Stating That."

A must.

Very Good copy, usual tanning.

File under: Alighiero Boetti Barry Flanagan Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Dennis Oppenheim Douglas Huebler Emilio Prini Eva Hesse Franz Erhard Walther Ger van Elk Gilberto Zorio Giovanni Anselmo Giulio Paolini Giuseppe Penone Hans Haacke Jan Dibbets Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Luciano Fabro Marinus Boezem Mario Merz Michael Heizer Michelangelo Pistoletto Pier Paolo Calzolari Reiner Ruthenbeck Richard Long Richard Serra Robert Barry Robert Morris Robert Smithson Stephen Kaltenbach Walter de Maria Germano Celant Studio Vista / London Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

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

Douglas Huebler
November 1968

1968, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages, 20.4 x 20.2 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seth Siegelaub / New York

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Very rare artist book by Douglas Huebler, published in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub, New York. This important historical catalog is the 1st for a show in which the catalog was the show itself.

First and only printing, in an edition of 1000 copies.

“The existence of each sculpture is documented by it’s documentation.
The documentation takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and descriptive language.
The marker “material“ and the shape described by the location of the markers have no special significance, other than tot o demark the limits of the piece.
The permanence and destiny oft he markers have no special significance.
The duration pieces exist only in the documentation of the marker’s destiny within a selected period of time.
The proposed projects do not differ from the other pieces as idea, but do differ to he extent of their material substance." - from introduction by Douglas Huebler.

Very Good copy with light wear to covers, rubbing to bottom right corner.

File under: Douglas Huebler Douglas Huebler Seth Siegelaub Seth Siegelaub / New York Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Minimal Art

Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.

1969 / 2006, English / French / German / Italian
Softcover binder (w. spring-loaded plate), 170 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

$290.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great art documents of the 20th century, "Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form", curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, March 22 - April 27, 1969. This is the impeccably re-produced facsimile edition of the exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition honouring the legacy of Szeemann in 2006, published by the Kunsthalle Bern, the producers of the original. Strictly limited edition and immediately out-of-print, this most faithful reprint, with the unique die-cut alphabetically tabbed index bound with hardware-fittings, has become as collectible as the 1969 edition.

Sponsored by the Philip Morris tobacco company, this was an important, extensive and primary exhibition dedicated to the amalgam of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe and the United States. The catalogue itself is designed and produced by Szeemann, and printed in Switzerland by Stämpfli & Cie in Bern. Alongside those of Seth Siegelaub, Szeemann's now historical catalogues changed the way exhibition publishing performed. Presented as a indexical binder (spring-bound with a metal plate) forming an index of alphabetical artist pages and accompanying texts. Includes a biography, bibliography, illustrations and portrait for each artist.

Texts by Harald Szeemann, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini.

Artists include Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger Van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Jo Ann Kaplan, Eva Hesse, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary B. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Pechter, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Viner, Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, William Wiley and Gilberto Zorio.

Texts in English, French, German and Italian.

As New with only light creasing to the overhanging edges of the cover edges, otherwise a Fine copy.

File under: Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Richard Artschwager Thomas Bang Jared Bark Robert Barry Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Marinus Boezem Bill Bollinger Michael Buthe Pier Paolo Calzolari Paul Cotton Alighiero Boetti Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Ger Van Elk Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Hans Haacke Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Paolo Icaro Alain Jacquet Neil Jenney Jo Ann Kaplan Eva Hesse Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Gary B. Kuehn Sol LeWitt Richard Long Roelof Louw Bruce McLean Walter De Maria David Medalla Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Paul Pechter Panamarenko Michelangelo Pisteletto Emilio Prini Markus Raetz Allen Ruppersberg Reiner Ruthenbeck Robert Ryman Alan Saret Sarkis Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Fred Sandback Richard Serra Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Frank Viner Erhard Walther Lawrence Weiner William Wegman William Wiley Gilberto Zorio Harald Szeemann Scott Burton Tommaso Trini Gregoire Müller Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Conceptual Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Pop Art Photography Film / Video

INFORMATION
by Kynaston McShine, Lucy Lippard, et al.

1970, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York

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Extremely rare first 1970 edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art, published to accompany this groundbreaking avant-garde show.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear, single spine crack, all crisp, clean interior and tightly bound copy of a book that usually sees serious page detachments. Best copy we have seen.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Newspaper Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Ettore Sottsass Jr. Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Kynaston McShine Lucy Lippard MoMA / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Fluxus Minimal Art Arte Povera Photography Curatorial Art Counterculture Ecology / Earth Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Seth Siegelaub
Beyond Conceptual Art

2016, English
Softcover, 600 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Seth Siegelaub (1941–2013) is best known for his decisive role in the emergence and establishment of Conceptual Art in the late 1960s.

This extensively researched publication documents the first exhibition about his life and work, which reassess his role as one of the distinctive characters in twentieth-century exhibition-making, while recognizing his atypical, inquisitive, and free-spirited genius.

Siegelaub was also a gallerist, independent curator, publisher, researcher, archivist, collector, and bibliographer. Often credited as the ‘Father of Conceptual Art’, he was (and remains) a seminal influence on curators, artists, and cultural thinkers, internationally and in Amsterdam, where he settled in the 1990s.

With revolutionary projects such as the Xerox Book, he set the blueprint for the presentation and dissemination of conceptual practices. In the process, he redefined the exhibition space, which could now be a book, a poster, an announcement, or reality at large.

Siegelaub’s radical reassessment of the conditions of art resonated deeply with the iconoclastic views of his contemporaries Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, among others, with whom he developed close working relationships.

Texts by Beatrix Ruf, Leontine Coelewij , Sara Martinetti and more.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 – 17 April 2016.

File under: Carl Andre Daniel Buren Douglas Huebler Jan Dibbets Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Beatrix Ruf Leontine Coelewij Sara Martinetti Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Minimal Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Textiles Group Shows / Collections

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Information (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Kynaston McShine. Text by Lucy Lippard, et al.

2019, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized. This facsimile edition of the original Information catalog, which has long been out of print, invites reengagement with MoMA’s landmark exhibition while illuminating the early history of conceptual art.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Ettore Sottsass Newspaper Ettore Sottsass Jr. Kynaston McShine Lucy R. Lippard MoMA / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Art Fluxus Minimal Art

Art After Conceptual Art
Edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann

2006, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 14 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians and artists from Europe and the Americas (including Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Helen Molesworth, Isabelle Graw, Thomas Crow, Helmut Draxler, Alexander Alberro, Sabeth Buchmann, Henrik Oelsen, Edit András) introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions. The bulk of the volume features newly written and highly innovative essays challenging standard interpretations of the legacy of conceptualism and discussing the influence of conceptualism's varied practices on art since the 1970s. The essays explore topics as diverse as the interrelationships between conceptualism and institutional critique, neoexpressionist painting and conceptualist paradigms, conceptual art's often-ignored complicity with design and commodity culture, the specific forms of identity politics taken up by the reception of conceptual art, and conceptualism's North/South and East/West dynamics. A few texts that continue to be crucial for critical debates within the fields of conceptual and postconceptual art practice, history, and theory have been reprinted in order to convey the vibrant and ongoing discussion on the status of art after conceptual art. Taken together, the essays will inspire an exploration of the relationship between postconceptualist practices and the beginnings of contemporary art.

File under: Michael Asher Dan Graham Maria Eichhorn Maria Eichhorn Mathias Poledna Martha Rosler Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Christopher Williams Bas Jan Ader Judy Chicago Mary Kelly Mierle Laderman Ukeles Lygia Clark Adrian Piper Piero Manzoni Douglas Huebler Markus Lüpertz Nils Norman Jarosław Kozłowski Christopher D'Arcangelo Fareed Armaly Dorit Margreiter Alexander Alberro Sabeth Buchmann Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Helen Molesworth Isabelle Graw Thomas Crow Helmut Draxler Henrik Oelsen Edit András The MIT Press / Massachusetts Conceptual Art Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Photography

Douglas Huebler
Variable Piece 4: Secrets

1978 / 2017, English
Softcover, 94 pages, 22 x 14 cm
ed. of 1000,
Published by Primary Information / New York Printed Matter Inc. / New York

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Variable Piece 4: Secrets is a facsimile edition of Douglas Huebler’s classic artist book, which was originally published by Printed Matter in 1978. Simple and salacious, the publication collects over 1,800 secrets written anonymously by visitors to the 1970 Software exhibition at the Jewish Museum. In doing so, the book provides a fleeting glimpse into the cultural, political, and social preoccupations of the era while showcasing Huebler’s open-ended and variable approach to art making—an approach that sought to undermine the dominance of object-oriented practices in favor of a text-driven conceptualism that relied on variables outside of the artist’s control.

Pioneers of the artists’ books medium, of which Huebler was one, predicted that one day artists’ books would be sold next to detective and romance novels in drugstores and supermarkets throughout America. While this dream was never realized, Variable Piece 4: Secrets could easily find its place amongst these popular genres; a true page-turner that delivers the whodunit in succinct statements, ripped from real life, without the hassle of narrative arcs, prefaces, or chapters.

Douglas Huebler (1924–1997) began work as a painter and Minimalist sculptor before focusing attention on language-driven conceptual art in the late 1960s. Examining themes such as duration, location, and social environments, Huebler’s work sought to move beyond the physical object, incorporating photography, text, maps, and drawings to document everyday activities, often carried out over specific periods of time. From 1970 until his death, Huebler worked on Variable Piece #70, which attempted to document every living person. The failure of this project underscored Huebler’s views on the limitations of photography. In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist incorporated painting and comic strips into his conceptual practice, exploring the idea of the masterpiece through the “correction”—or forgery—of works.

File under: Douglas Huebler Primary Information / New York Printed Matter Inc. / New York Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Cybernetics of The Poor
Edited by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria

2021, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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An examination of the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections, with works that uses the powerlessness of art.

Cybernetics of the Poor examines the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present. From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions. Initially relevant mostly in the fields of administration, planning, criminology, and early ecology, under digital capitalism cybernetics has since become an economic factor (particularly in the realm of big data). In such a cybernetic totality, art must respond to a new situation: a cybernetics of the poor.

Cybernetics of the Poor presents work that uses the powerlessness of art—its poverty—vis-à-vis the cybernetic machine to propose countermodels: work that is both recent and historical by artists who believed in cybernetics as a participatory, playful practice or were pioneers in delineating a counter-cybernetics. How much of what Thomas Pynchon termed “counterforce” exists within art when it is conceived as a cybernetics of the poor?

Texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Mercedes Bunz, Diedrich Diederichsen, Oier Etxeberria, Harun Farocki
With artistic contributions by Agency, Ana De Almeida, Alicja Rogalska & Vanja Smiljanić, Eleanor Antin, Cory Arcangel, Elena Asins, Paolo Cirio, Coleman Collins, Hanne Darboven, Jon Mikel Euba, Michael Hakimi, Douglas Huebler, Gema Intxausti, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Mike Kelley, Ferdinand Kriwet, Agnieszka Kurant, Mario Navarro, Adrian Piper, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Heinrich Riebesehl, Pedro G. Romero, Constanze Ruhm, Jörg Schlick, Camila Sposati, Kathrin Stumreich, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Tanja Widmann, Robert Adrian X

Diedrich Diederichsen
Diedrich Diederichsen is a German author, music journalist, and cultural critic. He is one of Germany's most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture.

Oier Etxeberria
Oier Etxeberria is a Basque visual artist and musician. He is head of the Visual Arts at CICC Tabakalera.

File under: Agency Ana De Almeida Alicja Rogalska Vanja Smiljanić Eleanor Antin Cory Arcangel Elena Asins Paolo Cirio Coleman Collins Hanne Darboven Jon Mikel Euba Michael Hakimi Douglas Huebler Gema Intxausti Kameelah Janan Rasheed Mike Kelley Ferdinand Kriwet Agnieszka Kurant Mario Navarro Adrian Piper Lili Reynaud-Dewar Heinrich Riebesehl Pedro G. Romero Constanze Ruhm Jörg Schlick Camila Sposati Kathrin Stumreich Isidoro Valcárcel Medina Tanja Widmann Robert Adrian X Diedrich Diederichsen Oier Etxeberria Sabeth Buchmann Mercedes Bunz Harun Farocki Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Materializing Six Years
Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art

2012, English
Hardcover, 304 pages, 216 x 254 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book.

“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized.’” — Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippard’s celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materializing the ideas in her book.

The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. By tracing Lippard’s own activities in those years, the book also documents the early blurring of boundaries among critical, curatorial, and artistic practices.

With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippard’s curatorial experiment full circle.

Edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Six Years' Project: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, September 14, 2012-February 3, 2013, organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum, and the independent scholar Vincent Bonin.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy Lippard Joseph Beuys Gilbert & George Lucy R. Lippard The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Feminism Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
Michalis Pichler (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Regine Ehleiter, Michalis Pichler, Seth Siegelaub

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. It features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.

In preparation for the project, Siegelaub and Pichler met twice in Amsterdam, where they had a long recorded conversation about books, living with books, being intimately connected with books, and producing books, and about the recent emergence of contemporary publications that show clear reference to books Siegelaub had produced, both piracies and homages, and not always to his delight.

Books by Siegelaub that are often paraphrased include the Xerox Book (1968), which was printed in offset and has since been xeroxed by various artists and publishers in many different ways, the catalogue exhibitions from 1969, as well as Lawrence Weiner’s Statements (1968). These publications are often taken as starting points for new projects, which are derivative and yet substantial artworks in their own right. Also, Siegelaub’s engagement with the Art Workers’ Coalition and subsequent draft of The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement has had wide reception and reaction in contemporary art and activism.

“The works presented in Michalis Pichler’s catalogue Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub reinvent Siegelaub’s renowned distinction between primary and secondary information.”
—Annette Gilbert, editor of Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature and Publishing as Artistic Practice

“This anthology provides a welcome overview of the highly innovative exhibition and distribution practices developed by Seth Siegelaub in the late 1960s and the 1970s.”
—Alexander Alberro, author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

“Seth Siegelaub was largely responsible for publicizing and promoting Conceptual art in the 1960s, but as Books and Ideas documents, he has continued to be a provocation and inspiration almost half a century after his abrupt exit from the art world he helped to create. Moreover, this book provides a context for Pichler’s own brand of conceptual practices. If part of Siegelaub’s genius was to reconceive exhibition as publication, Pichler gives us a catalogue of catalogues exhibiting the proliferation of mirrors which line the hall of Conceptual art’s legacy. In the pages of Books and Ideas, secondary information, accordingly, becomes primary.”
—Craig Dworkin, author of No Medium and Reading the Illegible

Copublished with the Center for Book Arts, New York
Design by Burak Yilmaz Kececiler

File under: Adrian Piper Art Workers' Coalition Carl Andre Douglas Huebler Jan Dibbets Jonathan Monk Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Maria Eichhorn Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Germano Celant Michalis Pichler Regine Ehleiter Seth Siegelaub Steven Leiber Lucy R. Lippard Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Graphic Design / Typography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

Conceptual Art In A Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization And Documentation
by Nathalie Zonnenberg

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case studies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual art is analyzed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting conceptual artworks, and on the influence of curators in their canonization.
The aim of the book is not to offer clear-cut practical solutions, but to raise awareness of the issue and the different ways of dealing with it within the traditional curatorial field. It is relevant for students of art and culture (particularly in museum and curatorial studies), art and museum professionals, and everyone interested in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Nathalie Zonnenberg is an art historian and curator. She holds a PhD in Art History from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL). Zonnenberg regularly writes on contemporary art, and she lectures at the post-graduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK/the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).

File under: Robert Morris Douglas Huebler Sol LeWitt Stanley Brouwn Markus Raetz Robert Ryman Adrian Piper Charlotte Posenenske Richard Tuttle Niele Toroni Michael Snow Sarkis Reiner Ruthenbeck Keith Sonnier Sherrie Levine John Latham El Lissitzky Richard Long Gordon Matta-Clark Piero Manzoni Brice Marden Bruce McLean Mario Merz Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Pino Pascali Barry Flanagan Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Piero Gilardi Eva Hesse Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Barbara Kruger Richard Prince On Kawara Jo Ann Kaplan Rem Koolhaas Robert Filliou Robert Barry Alighiero Boetti Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Joseph Beuys Hanne Darboven Maria Eichhorn Jan Dibbets Marcel Duchamp Lynda Benglis John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Michelangelo Pistoletto Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Dada Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections

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

Douglas Huebler
Durata Duration

1970, English
Hardcover (w.dust jacket), 120 pages, 17 x 11.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sperone Editore / Torino

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Very scarce, wonderful early artist's book by Douglas Huebler, edited by Germano Celant and Pierluigi Pero and published in Turin by Sperone Editore, 1970.

"A fountain located in the Giardino of Sambuy, Italy, was documented by 61 photographs made according to 8 different systems in 'time'."- January 1970, Douglas Huebler

Considered a founder of Conceptual Art, Douglas Huebler's interests and influences ranged from language and mathematics to avant-garde literature and Existentialism. Having abandoned painting and sculpture by the late 1960s, he is primarily known for his work that combined short written statements (usually containing a description of a structure or system) with other materials, such as photography, drawings, and maps. Durata/Duration demonstrates Huebler's early interest in aspects of time and location.

Good-Very Good copy with light tanning/wear, fragile binding.

File under: Douglas Huebler Germano Celant Pierluigi Pero Sperone Editore / Torino Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Minimal Art Art

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

ART POVERA
CONCEPTUAL, ACTUAL OR IMPOSSIBLE ART? GERMANO CELANT (ED.)

1969, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 240 pages, 21 x 22 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

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First hardcover US printing of "Art Povera", the now legendary critical/photographic book by Germano Celant (Italian art historian, critic and curator) documenting the so-called "Art Povera /Arte Povera" movement (meaning "poor art", coined by Celant in 1967) and published by Studio Vista, London in 1969 and Praeger, New York, the same year.

Includes profiles of major artists of the movement, including a short text followed by pages of full-page photographs for each artist.

Artists featured: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

"This book does not aim at being an objective and general analysis of the phenomenon of art or life, but is rather an attempt to flank (both art and life) as accomplices of the changes and attitudes in the development of their daily becoming. This book does not attempt to be objective since the awareness of objectivity is false consciousness. The book, made up of photographs and written documents, bases its critical and editorial assumptions on the knowledge that criticism and iconographic documents give limited vision and partial perception of artistic work. The book, when it reproduces the documents of artistic work, refutes the linguistic mediation of photography. The book, even though it wants to avoid the logic of consumption, is a consumer's item. ... This book produces a collection of already old material. ... In this book there is no need to reflect in order to seek a unitary and reassuring value, immediately refuted by the the authors themselves, rather there is the necessity to look into it for the changes, limits, precariousness and instability of artistic work." -- text from Celant's introduction "Stating That.

Good ex-library copy with light associated markings, without dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tightly bound Very Good copy throughout (never loaned).

File under: Walter de Maria Stephen Kaltenbach Richard Long Mario Merz Douglas Huebler Joseph Beuys Eva Hesse Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Lawrence Weiner Luciano Fabro Bruce Nauman Joseph Kosuth Jan Dibbets Giovanni Anselmo Robert Barry Pier Paolo Calzolari Dennis Oppenheim Barry Flanagan Robert Smithson Giulio Paolini Reiner Ruthenbeck Alighiero Boetti Giuseppe Penone Franz Erhard Walther Hans Haacke Gilberto Zorio Robert Morris Marinus Boezem Carl Andre Emilio Prini Richard Serra Michelangelo Pistoletto Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater

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

Chance
Edited by Margaret Iversen

2010, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation—has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, and participatory artworks. But why—a century after Dada and Surrealism's first systematic enquiries—does chance remain a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world?The writings in this anthology examine the gap between intention and outcome, showing it to be crucial to the meaning of chance in art. The book provides a new critical context for chance procedures in art since 1900 and aims to answer such questions as why artists deliberately set up such a gap in their practice; what new possibilities this suggests; and why the viewer finds the art so engaging.Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, William Anastasi, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mark Boyle, George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Marcel Duchamp, Brian Eno, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Huang Yong Ping, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jiri Kovanda, Jorge Macchi, Christian Marclay, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Cornelia Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Keith Tyson, Jennifer West, Ceryth Wyn Evans, La Monte Young

Writers include: Paul Auster, Jacquelynn Baas, Georges Bataille, Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Bishop, Guy Brett, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Stanley Cavell, Lynne Cooke, Fei Dawei, Gilles Deleuze, Anna Dezeuze, Russell Ferguson, Branden W. Joseph, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Sarat Maharaj, John Miller, Alexandra Munroe, Gabriel Pérez Barreiro, Jasia Reichardt, Julia Robinson, Sarah Valdez, Katharina VossenkuhlDocuments of Contemporary Art series
Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London

File under: Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow Bas Jan Ader Brian Eno Bruce Nauman Ceal Floyer Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Marclay Cildo Meireles Cornelia Parker Daniel Spoerri David Weiss Douglas Huebler Francis Alÿs Gabriel Orozco George Brecht Gerhard Richter Huang Yong Ping Jennifer West Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari John Cage Jorge Macchi Keith Tyson La Monte Young Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mark Boyle Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Robert Morris Robert Rauschenberg Sophie Calle Stan Douglas Tacita Dean Vito Acconci Walead Beshty William Anastasi Yoko Ono Alexandra Munroe Anna Dezeuze Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Branden W. Joseph Claire Bishop Daniel Birnbaum Fei Dawei Gabriel Pérez Barreiro Georges Bataille Gilles Deleuze Guy Brett Jacquelynn Baas Jacques Lacan Jasia Reichardt John Miller Julia Robinson Katharina Vossenkuhl Lynne Cooke Margaret Iversen Paul Auster Russell Ferguson Sarah Valdez Sarat Maharaj Siegfried Kracauer Stanley Cavell The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Photography Surrealism Theory / Essay