World Food Books

Decoration : Tradition et Renouveau
Collection Connaissance des Arts

1973, French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 25 x 32 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Réalités - Hachette / Paris

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First and only printing of one of the heaviest hitters of interior design books ever, the enormous, lavishly illustrated "Decoration : Tradition et Renouveau" (Collection Connaissance des Arts) published in 1973. Without a doubt one of the most sought after interior design books and now extremely rare.

This heavy, prestigious, cloth-bound volume travels through some of the world's most incredible domestic interiors by the 20th century's top interior designers and decorators, including Francois Catroux, Serge Royaux, Gae Aulenti, Alberto Pinto, Maria Pergay, Charles Sevigny, Martine Dufour, Isabelle Hebey, Michel Boyer, David Mlinaric, Karl Lagerfeld, Quasar Khanh, Marc du Plantier, Yves Vidal, Jacques Grange, Valentino, Aldo Jacober, David Hicks, Piero Pinto, Henri Samuel, Nanda Vigo, John Stefanidis, Paolo Tommasi, and more, including the homes of major architects, fashion designers, art and antiquities collectors, celebrities, and interior designers themselves, showcasing objets d'art, historical artifacts, furniture and decor (from Mies van der Rohe, Lucio Fontana, Nicola L, Cesar, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, Arman, Gae Aulenti, Marcel Breuer, Cy Twombly, Le Corbusier, François-Xavier Lalanne and Claude Lalanne, Quasar Khanh, Roger Tallon, Pierre Jeanneret, Enzo Mari, Pierre Paulin, Carla Venosta, Nanda Vigo, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marcel Breuer, Ruth Francken, Afra + Tobia Scarpa, Charles Eames, Joe Columbo, Verner Panton, Bruno Munari, Mario Bellini, Henri Michaux, Jean Fautrier, Tom Wesselman, Sonia Delaunay, Marimekko, Superstudio, Man Ray... just to name a few) adorning decorated interiors ranging from "Tradition" ("a formula that allows one to integrate older items, furniture and artwork in a contemporary context"); "le Renouveau" (contemporary interiors of the 1970's and "a section dedicated to design of the time offering a selection of the finest furniture, objects and accessories created by top designers"); and "l'Avant-garde" (displaying some of the most experimental, idiosyncratic, and forward-thinking interiors that bring together modern materiality, pop art and space design to create inspired interior living architectural spaces).

"How to reconcile antique furniture and contemporary structures? Can we adapt modern furniture within a traditionally inspired framework? This book, illustrated with beautiful photographs, mostly in color, reproducing the finest achievements of the great contemporary designers, responds to these questions."

Preface by Francis Spar. All texts in French. Hundreds of beautiful photographs in vivid colour and b/w. A must-have for the interior design lover.

Very good, beautifully preserved copy, strong binding, and seldom now seen with original dust jacket (also VG).

File under: Achille Castiglioni Afra and Tobia Scarpa Afra Scarpa Anna Castelli Arman Bruno Munari Charles Eames David Hicks De Pas D'Urbino Enzo Mari Gae Aulenti Harry Bertoia Jean Dubuffet Joe Colombo Jorgen Rasmussen Karl Lagerfeld Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Marcel Breuer Marco Zanuso Mario Bellini Michel Boyer Mies van der Rohe Nanda Vigo Nicola L Pablo Picasso Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Paulin Roger Tallon Sonia Delaunay Tobia Scarpa Tom Wesselmann Verner Panton Paolo Lomazzi Eero Saarinen Jean Fautrier Henri Michaux Serge Royaux Alberto Pinto David Mlinaric Aldo Jacober Fleur Vulliod Piero Pinto Carla Venosta Maria Pergay Martine Dufour Isabelle Hebey Karl Largerfeld Claude and Francoise-Xavier Lalanne Claudio Dini Gunter Sachs Michelangelo Pistoletto Quasar Khanh Superstudio Marimekko Ruth Francken Valentino Charles Sevigny Jacques Grange Marc du Plantier Yves Vidal John Stefanidis Henri Samuel Paolo Tommasi Cy Twombly César Francis Spar Réalités - Hachette / Paris Architecture / Interior Art Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Textiles

Jean Dubuffet
Expériences Musicales : Cahiers de la Fondation Dubuffet N° 1 Book + CD

2006, French
Softcover (+ audio cd), 232 pages, ‎17 x 24 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Fondation Dubuffet / Paris

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First edition, out-of-print catalogue, the first book (+ CD) published by Cahiers de la Fondation Dubuffet to accompany a major exhibition tracing the "musical experiences" of Jean Dubuffet, curated by Sophie Duplaix for the Dubuffet Foundation, Paris.

Protean artist, Jean Dubuffet has always been interested in the world of music. His preoccupations with music echo the development of his discourse on the subversion of culture, sweeping away cultural acquisitions in favour of ever freer improvisation. It was with his interest in jazz in the 1940s that parallels between music and painting began to emerge, but it was not until the early 1960s that these theoretical parallels took shape in "musical experiences" which consisted of recording sessions taking advantage of the flexible handling of magnetic tape. Dubuffet links these experiments to the research he conducts on the pictorial plane. However, it was more than ten years later that he truly achieved, with Coucou Bazar, a vast "animated tableau" and the culmination of the "L'Hourloupe" cycle, the osmosis of which he had gradually established the principles.

The main body of the book, "An Anthology in Three Times" (175 pages) — three profusely illustrated chapters — is a selection of texts, letters, documents, presented by Sophie Duplaix — curator of the exhibition presented at the same time — allowing understand the context and the challenges of the musical creations of Jean Dubuffet.

An accompanying audio compact disc is offered with the book with 7 unpublished recordings by Jean Dubuffet, a selection commented on by the German musicologist, Andreas Wagner, in the chapter "A selection of unpublished works".

The work is completed by a comprehensive directory of the original tapes kept at the Dubuffet Foundation, a discography, a selective bibliography and a short biography of the artist.

"The musical experiences which occupied me for several months in 1961, then later again in 1974, aim at a total oblivion of all cultural musical conditioning. They aim at erasing all that has received until now the name of music and to start anew. The principles which form the basis of all traditional music are revoked, and therefore first of all the sounds of the scale, then rhythm and time. any clearly discernible melodic song.[.] A music therefore where speech is withdrawn from the singer expressing his affective or passionate moods, and restored to the cosmic rumors delivering their wild noise."—Jean Dubuffet.

Texts in French.
As New copy complete with audio CD.

File under: Jean Dubuffet Sophie Duplaix Fondation Dubuffet / Paris Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism

Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time
by Maria Stavrinaki

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 448 pages, 15.4 x 23.5 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Prehistory is an invention of the late nineteenth century. In that moment of technological progress and acceleration of production and circulation, three major Western narratives about time took shape. One after another, these new fields of inquiry delved into the obscure immensity of the past: first, to surmise the age of the Earth; second, to find the point of emergence of human beings; and third, to ponder the age of art. Maria Stavrinaki considers the inseparability of these accounts of temporality from the disruptive forces of modernity. She asks what a history of modernity and its art would look like if considered through these three interwoven inventions of the longue durée. Transfixed by Prehistory attempts to articulate such a history, which turns out to be more complex than an inevitable march of progress leading up to the Anthropocene. Rather, it is a history of stupor, defamiliarization, regressive acceleration, and incessant invention, since the “new” was also found in the deep sediments of the Earth. Composed of as much speed as slowness, as much change as deep time, as much confidence as skepticism and doubt, modernity is a complex phenomenon that needs to be rethought. Stavrinaki focuses on this intrinsic tension through major artistic practices (Cézanne, Matisse, De Chirico, Ernst, Picasso, Dubuffet, Smithson, Morris, and contemporary artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Hirschhorn), philosophical discourses (Bataille, Blumenberg, and Jünger), and the human sciences. This groundbreaking book will attract readers interested in the intersections of art history, anthropology, psychoanalysis, mythology, geology, and archaeology.

“Transfixed by Prehistory delivers a stunning reconceptualization of the relationship between time and technology in industrial capitalism.” —Devin Fore

“From Cézanne to Smithson via Paleolithic mandibles, Stavrinaki mobilizes an unlikely group of artifacts to explore the core hermeneutic questions of an Anthropocene epoch in which the symbolic and the geological have become intertwined, if not indistinguishable. Through readings that are not just anecdotally rich and methodologically exemplary but also utterly compelling formally, Transfixed by Prehistory delivers a stunning reconceptualization of the relationship between time and technology in industrial capitalism.” —Devin Fore, Princeton University

File under: Lucio Fontana Thomas Hirschhorn Jean Dubuffet Pablo Picasso Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Robert Smithson Henri Matisse Paul Cézanne Robert Morris Pierre Huyghe Ernst Jünger Georges Bataille Maria Stavrinaki Zone Books / New York Art Painting Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Theory / Essay Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Conceptual Art

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Art of the Sixties / Kunst der sechziger Jahre

1969, English / German
Flexible plastic covers, screw-bound in acrylic spine, multiple stocks throughout, approx 500 pages, 28 x 15 cm
3rd enlarged edition,
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ludwig Museum / Cologne

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The extraordinary, definitive 1960s art exhibition catalogue, in it's 3rd expanded and corrected edition, designed by Wolf Vostell for the Ludwig collection in Cologne in 1969. A work of art itself, "Kunst der sechziger Jahre" perfectly embodies the materiality of the pop-era in book form. Housed in thick blind-stamped clear soft plastic covers bound in a hard acrylic plexiglass spine with stainless steel screws, this remarkable book opens with an introductory text and lexicon in German and English, printed on styrofoam pages and graph stock, with contributions by Gert von der Osten, Peter Ludwig, Horst Keller, and Evelyn Weiss. Featuring 92 artists, all part of the private collection of Peter Ludwig, each artist is presented with a portrait on transparent acetate followed by a selection of glossy offset-printed colour artworks tipped-in (often concertina fold-out!) on thick raw kraft paper pages. This enlarged 3rd edition features over 200 objects in total, a vast expansion on the first editions.

Featuring the greats of European-American Pop, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Informel, Abstraction, Minimalism and more, this mighty tome includes the work of Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Horst Antes, Shusaku Arakawa, Allan D'Arcangelo, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Miguel Berrocal, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, Gernot Bubenik, Anthony Caro, John Chamberlain, Dan Christensen, Alex Colville, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ronald Davis, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Bruno Goller, Robert Graham, Nancy Stevenson Graves, Gunter Haese, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hartung, Erwin Heerich, Eva Hesse, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allen Jones, Donald Judd, Howard Kantovitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Morris Louis, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Marisol, Malcolm Morley, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicolas Schoffer, Bernhard Schultze, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Pierre Soulages, Daniel Spoerri, Lawrence Stafford, Lewis Stein, Frank Stella, Antoni Tapies, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Gunther Uecker, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Wols (Wolfgang Schulze).

A Very Good copy of this fragile and collectible catalogue. The usual bowing to pages, some general ageing, with a split to the lower back of plastic spine where the screw hole is, yet all still intact, nothing missing. Complete copy.

File under: Marisol Öyvind Fahlström Josef Albers Carl Andre Horst Antes Shusaku Arakawa Allan D'Arcangelo Arman Richard Artschwager Larry Bell Miguel Berrocal Joseph Beuys Peter Blake Gernot Bubenik Anthony Caro John Chamberlain Dan Christensen Alex Colville Carlos Cruz-Diez Ronald Davis Jim Dine Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Domenico Gnoli Bruno Goller Robert Graham Nancy Graves Gunter Haese Richard Hamilton Hans Hartung Erwin Heerich Eva Hesse David Hockney Robert Indiana Jasper Johns Allen Jones Donald Judd Howard Kantovitz Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz R. B. Kitaj Konrad Klapheck Yves Klein Yayoi Kusama Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Richard Linder Morris Louis Heinz Mack Piero Manzoni Malcolm Morley Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Louise Nevelson Kenneth Noland Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Pablo Picasso Michelangelo Pistoletto Robert Rauschenberg Martial Raysse Gerhard Richter Jean-Paul Riopelle James Rosenquist Niki de Saint Phalle Nicolas Schoffer Bernhard Schultze George Segal Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Pierre Soulages Daniel Spoerri Lawrence Stafford Lewis Stein Frank Stella Antoni Tapies Paul Thek Wayne Thiebaud Jean Tinguely Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Gunther Uecker Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) Victor Vasarely Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Wols Jo Baer Gert von der Osten Peter Ludwig Horst Keller Evelyn Weiss Ludwig Museum / Cologne Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Minimal Art

Boston Collects : Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

1986, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Museum of Fine Arts / Boston

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Exhibition catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1986, surveying their collection of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Illustrated throughout in full colour with works by Pierre Alechinsky, Miquel Barcelo, Alfonse Borysewicz, Terry Allen, Siah Armajani, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerry Bergstein, Troy Brauntuch, Jack Bush, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Anthony Caro, Joseph Cornell, Enzo Cucchi, Willem De Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Roy Deforest, Robert Freeman, Adolph Gottlieb, Al Held, Yves Klein, Michael Lucero, Louise Nevelson, Katherine Porter, Susan Rothenberg, Cy Twombly, Terry Winters, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Ralph Goings, Arshile Gorky, Nancy Graves, Philip Guston, Duane Hanson, Jess, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Michael Mazur, John Mcnamara, Catherine Murphy, Alice Neel, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, David Smith, Kenneth Snelson, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Gary Stephan, Clyfford Still, Tom Wesselmann, William T. Wiley, Bill Woodrow, Robert Yarber, and many more.

File under: Terry Allen Siah Armajani Arman Richard Artschwager Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerry Bergstein Troy Brauntuch Jack Bush Pier Paolo Calzolari Anthony Caro Joseph Cornell Enzo Cucchi Willem De Kooning Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Roy Deforest Robert Freeman Adolph Gottlieb Al Held Yves Klein Michael Lucero Louise Nevelson Katherine Porter Susan Rothenberg Cy Twombly Terry Winters Gilbert & George Gregory Gillespie Ralph Goings Arshile Gorky Nancy Graves Philip Guston Duane Hanson Jess Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Franz Kline Joseph Kosuth Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Michael Mazur John Mcnamara Catherine Murphy Alice Neel A.R. Penck Sigmar Polke Robert Rauschenberg Gerhard Richter Mark Rothko Lucas Samaras George Segal David Smith Kenneth Snelson Joan Snyder Pat Steir Frank Stella Gary Stephan Clyfford Still Tom Wesselmann William T. Wiley Bill Woodrow Robert Yarber Pierre Alechinsky Miquel Barcelo Alfonse Borysewicz Museum of Fine Arts / Boston Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
By Hal Foster

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 19.1 x 26 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington

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How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal aesthetics" adequate to the destruction around them.

With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does Jorn populate his paintings with "human animals"? What does Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban scrap?

A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in crisis, Brutal Aesthetics is an intriguing account of a difficult era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important implications for our own.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

File under: Jean Dubuffet Asger Jorn Eduardo Paolozzi Claes Oldenburg Hal Foster Georges Bataille Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Theory / Essay

Bildwerke und Objekte : Neuzugänge seit 1965

1973, German
Softcover, 138 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Lovely catalogue published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, in 1973 to document the museums extensive collection of international contemporary sculpture. Profusely illustrated in black and white with the works of Jean Arp, Paul Thek, Nancy Graves, John Chamberlain, Larry Bell, Carl Andre, Christo, Eva Hesse, Joachim Bandau, Jacques Lipchitz, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Germaine Richier, Schöffer, Bernard Schultze, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), John Tweed, Franz Erhard Walther, Hanns Gasser, Merdardo Rosso, Joseph Beuys, Günter Haese, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Jesús Rafael Soto, Richard Tuttle, Helmut Moos, Bruce Nauman, Ansgar Nierhoff, Jim Dine, Gary Indiana, Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow, Julio Le Parc, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, G. F. Ris, George Segal, Nicolas Schöffer, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Paolozzi, Jean Tinguely, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Arman, Claes Oldenburg, Marisol Escobar, Niki Saint-Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, Wolf Vostell, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Pol Bury, Erwin Heerich, Horst-Egon Kalinowski, Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Honoré Daumier, Gasser, Adolf von Hildebrand, Max Klinger, Rosso, Aristide Maillol, Tweed, Julio González, Pablo Picasso, Henri Laurens, and many more... Texts in German.

Very Good copy.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Paul Thek Nancy Graves John Chamberlain Larry Bell Carl Andre Christo Eva Hesse Joachim Bandau Jacques Lipchitz Louise Nevelson Joseph Cornell Jean Dubuffet Germaine Richier Schöffer Bernard Schultze Carlos Cruz-Diez Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) John Tweed Franz Erhard Walther Hanns Gasser Merdardo Rosso Joseph Beuys Günter Haese Roy Lichtenstein Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Jesus Raphael Soto Richard Tuttle Helmut Moos Bruce Nauman Marisol Robert Rauschenberg Ansgar Nierhoff Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow Julio Le Parc Jim Dine Gary Indiana Eduardo Paolozzi Arman Anthony Caro George Segal Man Ray Nicolas Schoffer Claes Oldenburg Jean Tinguely G. F. Ris Arnaldo Pomodoro Daniel Spoerri Heinz Mack Wolf Vostell Miguel Ortiz Berrocal Pol Bury Erwin Heerich Horst-Egon Kalinowski Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff Johann Gottfried Schadow Honoré Daumier Gasser Adolf von Hildebrand Max Klinger Rosso Aristide Maillol Pablo Picasso Henri Laurens Günter Uecker Niki de Saint-Phalle Julio Gonzalez Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Dada

Un art autre : où il s'agit de nouveaux dévidages du réel
by Michel Tapiè

1952, French
Softcover, 26 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gariel-Giraud / Paris

$350.00 - Out of stock

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First, very rare 1952 edition of this important piece of art history, considered the manifesto of "L'art Informel". Published in an edition of only 1000 copies, Michel Tapié's book Un Art Autre (Art of Another Kind) defined a tendency in postwar European painting that he saw as a radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition—an art that worked through ‘paroxysm, magic, total ecstasy’. This dominant trend of abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s was characterised by an improvisatory approach and highly gestural technique, much aligned with America's Abstract Expressionism. In describing such work he used the term art informel (from the French ‘informe’, meaning unformed or formless), and presented the exemplary works of Wols, Herni Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Ruth Francken, René Guiette, Victor Brauner, Alfonso A. Ossorio, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean Fautrier, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Karel Appel, Mario Sironi, Camille Bryen, Alberto Burri, Hans Hofmann, Claire Falkenstein, Slavko Kopač, Germaine Richier, Graham Sutherland, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Gianni Dova, Jaroslav Serpan, André-Pierre Arnal, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Lucio Fontana, Roberto Matta, Eduardo Paolozzi, Willem de Kooning, and more.

Very Good copy with tanning from age and light spotting. Beautifully preserved copy.

File under: Karel Appel Wols Henri Michaux Willem de Kooning Ruth Francken Pierre Soulages Jackson Pollock Gianni Dova Sam Francis Lucio Fontana Jean Dubuffet Mark Tobey Georges Mathieu Victor Brauner Alfonso Ossorio Jean Fautrier Giuseppe Capogrossi Jean-Paul Riopelle Alberto Burri Roberto Matta Eduardo Paolozzi René Guiette Mario Sironi Camille Bryen Hans Hofmann Claire Falkenstein Slavko Kopač Germaine Richier Graham Sutherland Mark Rothko Jaroslav Serpan André-Pierre Arnal Roger-Edgar Gillet Michel Tapiè Gariel-Giraud / Paris Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Art Arte Povera

Europäische Plastik des Informel, 1945-1965

1995, German
Hardcover (w. spiral-binding), 180 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum / Duisburg

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First edition of this important reference catalogue of European Informel sculpture spanning 1945-1965, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, European Center for Modern Sculpture, September 10 - November 12, 1995. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout, this deluxe catalogue, housed in hardcover with internal coated spiral-binding, is chaptered with themes such as "Anthropomorphic Figuration", "Reliefs", "Line and Rhythm in Iron and Steel", etc. and features extensive documentation of works by Jean Fautrier, Germaine Richier, Agenore Fabbri, Karl Hartung, Lynn Chadwick, Jan Koblasa, Étienne Martin, Alicia Penalba, Antoni Tàpies, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, Wols, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Rudolf Hoflehner, Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Henry Heerup, Eduardo Paolozzi, Emil Cimiotti, Franco Garelli, Shinkichi Tajiri, Bernhard Schultze, Ernst Hermanns, Oswald Oberhuber, Thomas Lenk, Leonardo Leoncillo, Bernhard Heiliger, Manolo Millares, Gerhard Hoehme, Jan Schoonhoven, Umberto Milani, Étienne Hajdú, Gio Pomodoro, César, Dušan Džamonja, Hans Uhlmann, Edgardo Mannucci, Harry Kramer, Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff, Eduardo Chillida, Robert Müller, Pablo Serrano, Jean Tinguely, and many more. Texts by Christoph Brockhaus, Katja Blomberg, Barbara Lülf, Dieter Schadt, Gottlieb Leinz, Emil Cimiotti, Susanne Höper, alongside an extensive and invaluable bibliography on the subject, as well as on individual artists featured.

Fine copy.

File under: Jean Fautrier Germaine Richier Agenore Fabbri Karl Hartung Lynn Chadwick Jan Koblasa Antoni Tàpies Lucio Fontana Jean Dubuffet Wols Max Ernst Pablo Picasso Alberto Giacometti Rudolf Hoflehner Asger Jorn Karel Appel Henry Heerup Eduardo Paolozzi Emil Cimiotti Franco Garelli Shinkichi Tajiri Bernhard Schultze Ernst Hermanns Oswald Oberhuber Thomas Lenk Leonardo Leoncillo Bernhard Heiliger Manolo Millares Gerhard Hoehme Jan Schoonhoven Umberto Milani Étienne Hajdú Gio Pomodoro César Dušan Džamonja Hans Uhlmann Edgardo Mannucci Harry Kramer Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff Eduardo Chillida Robert Müller Pablo Serrano Jean Tinguely Alicia Penalba Etienne-Martin Christoph Brockhaus Katja Blomberg Barbara Lülf Dieter Schadt Gottlieb Leinz Emil Cimiotti Susanne Höper Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum / Duisburg Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Art Group Shows / Collections

European Decoration
Creative Contemporary Interiors

1969, English
Hardcover, 186 page, 32 x 24.5 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Reynal & Company / New York

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First English edition of this wonderful hardcover volume of European interiors from the 1960s, edited by L'ŒIL creators Georges and Rosamond Bernier. Profusely illustrated throughout, all the material in this volume was selected from the pages of France's L'ŒIL magazine. "This book leads the reader into some of the most distinguished and original homes of Europe. Here are glimpses into the lives of gifted, glamorous people whose taste sets style around the globe. Whether Lombard palazzo or Paris roof-top, highly diversified interiors are the source of stimulating ideas that can often be translated into American terms."
L'ŒIL (French: The Eye) is a French magazine created by Rosamond Bernier (née Rosenbaum) and her second husband, Georges Bernier, in 1955 to celebrate and reflect contemporary art creation. It was one of the finest documents of interior design, architecture, fine and applied arts and design in the 1950s-1970s, marrying the historical with the modern and profiling many artists and designers in France for the first time.

Includes large chapters on each of the following: the Villar Perosa villa of Signor & Signora Giovanni (Marella) Agnelli; London apartment of Mr & Mrs Stanley Rubin designed by Jon Bannenberg; a Milanese apartment designed by Marcello Pietrantoni & Carla Venosta; architect J. Anthony Cloughley's London apartment, designed with help from Rubin de C. Albrizzi; Karl Lagerfeld's Paris apartment; a one-story modern country house designed by Martine Dufour and Caumont & Collard for Monsieur & Madame Claude Labouret; The Villa Montecchia; decorator Isabelle Hebey's Marais apartment; Palazzo Brandolini in Venice (Renzo Mongiardino); Saint-Tropez apartment designed by Andree Putman; the Parisian apartment of Marc Bohan (of Christian Dior); The house of David Hicks in the South of France; Prince Bao-Long's Isabelle Hebey-designed apartment; Hugh Chisolm's Paris apartment (designed by Charles Sevigny); the Villa Fiorentina at St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, belonging to Lady Kenmare & her son Roderick Cameron; Leonard Goulandris's London apartment designed by Jon Bannenberg; Van Day Truex's Vaucuse home; Philippe Guibourge's Paris apartment; Eugene Berman's Rome apartment; the Villa La Tana; Jacques Chazot's Paris apartment; Jacques & Andree Putman's Saint-Tropez home.

File under: David Hicks Isabelle Hebey Martine Dufour Karl Lagerfeld Jon Bannenberg Marcello Pietrantoni Carla Venosta Christian Dior Charles Sevigny Renzo Mongiardino Quasar Khanh Verner Panton Charles Eames Niki de Saint Phalle Jean Dubuffet Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Pablo Picasso Joe Colombo Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Eero Saarinen Harry Bertoia Marcel Breuer Olivier Mourgue Carlo Scarpa Jim Dine Kurt Schwitters Jean Fautrier Max Ernst Wassily Kandinsky Joan Miró Lucio Fontana Andrée Putman César Georges Bernier Rosamond Bernier Reynal & Company / New York Furniture Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Art Pop Art

VINYL : Records & Covers by Artists
Edited by Guy Schraenen

2005, English / German
Softcover, 270 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen

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This large, detailed catalogue forms a unique and important document, which was produced to accompany an exhibition at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 21.8. - 27.11.2005 and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 16.5. - 1.10.2006 showcasing a selection of some 800 pieces from the collection of Guy Schraenen. The main of this collection comprises vinyl records and covers by artists, musicians and poets in LP, single and other formats, alongside other sound media (tapes and CDs). Posters and books are also included. The exhibition shows artists (such as Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley, Öyvind Fahlström, Art & Language and Hermann Nitsch) and artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century through this complex medium of the vinyl cover, with its dual visual and audible components. Here Guy Schraenen has edited together an extensive visual catalogue of these historical objects.

A wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of modern sound art and the artistic medium of the vinyl sleeve, especially in the fields of Avantgarde, Electro-Acoustic, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Sound-Poetry, Art Rock, Industrial, Power-Electronics....

Henri Chopin, A.R. Penck, Brion Gysin, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Arman, Karel Appel, Öyvind Fahlström, Pierre Henry, Art & Language, Peter Brötzmann, Red Krayola, Ernst Jandl, Vito Acconci, Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Tony Conrad, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Jean Tinguely, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Terry Fox, Terry Riley, Sun Ra, Pandit Pran Nath, Albrecht/d., Robert Ashley, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Poly Bury, Charlemagne Palestine, Carl Andre, Brian Eno, Mike Kelley, Sonic Youth, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Michael Snow, Roland Topor, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik ... just the tip of the iceberg.

Very Good copy of the rare first printing from Bremen.

File under: A.R. Penck Albrecht/d. Andy Warhol Arman Bob Cobbing Brian Eno Brion Gysin Carl Andre Charlemagne Palestine Derek Bailey Dieter Roth Ernst Jandl George Brecht Han Bennink Hanne Darboven Harold Budd Henri Chopin Henry Flynt Hermann Nitsch Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely John Cage Jon Gibson Joseph Beuys Karel Appel La Monte Young Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner Marcel Duchamp Marian Zazeela Meredith Monk Michael Nyman Michael Snow Mike Kelley Nam June Paik Pandit Pran Nath Peter Brötzmann Philip Glass Pierre Henry Pierre Schaeffer Pol Bury Red Krayola Robert Ashley Robert Filliou Roland Topor Roman Opalka Sonic Youth Steve Reich Sun Ra Terry Fox Terry Riley Tony Conrad Vito Acconci Yoko Ono Yves Klein Öyvind Fahlström Art & Language Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen Art Dada Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Pop Art Sound / Music Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Z
Lagerkatalog 1970

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

$55.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

documenta-Dokumente 1955-1968

1972, German
Hardcover, 216 pages, 24.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel

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documenta - Dokumente 1955 - 1968 (Four International Exhibitions of Modern Art), was published by Georg Wenderoth Verlag, Kassel in 1972. This clothbound hardcover book of texts (by Dieter Westecker, Carl Eberth, Werner Lengemann, Erich Müller) and photographs of the first four documenta exhibitions, is quite a unique publication. Written at the suggestion of former students and collaborators of Documenta initiator Arnold Bode, it does not replace a documenta chronicle or a scientific study of individual facts. On the contrary, the textual and pictorial material is selected from a technical point of view, processed and presented in a comprehensible form to stimulate detailed investigations into the exhibition-presentations. The bulk of the photographic documentation is of visitor reception and interaction with the installations of artworks, including those of Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Lee Bontecou, Victor Pasmore, Marino Marini, Jean Dubuffet, Konrad Klapheck, George Segal, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Walter de Maria, Eduardo Paolozzi, Phillip King, Erich Hauser, Ernest Trova, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Carl Andre, William Tucker, Peter Brüning, David Smith, Edward Keinholz, Dan Flavin, Morris Louis, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, James RosenquisThomas Lenck, Francis Bacon, Horst Antes, Shinkichi Tajiri, Christo, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Bernard Schultze, Otto Herbert Hajek, Jacques Lipchitz, Lynn Chadwick, Paul Delvaux, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Max Bill, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Giogio de Chirico, Victor Vasarley, Zoran Music, Giuseppe Capogrossi, and many others.

Texts in German. First and only edition.
Vert Good copy with original dust jacket.

File under: Constantin Brancusi Lee Bontecou Victor Pasmore Marino Marini Jean Dubuffet Konrad Klapheck George Segal Robert Indiana Claes Oldenburg Walter de Maria Eduardo Paolozzi Phillip King Erich Hauser Ernest Trova Michelangelo Pistoletto Carl Andre William Tucker Peter Brüning David Smith Edward Keinholz Dan Flavin Morris Louis Sol Lewitt Robert Morris Frank Stella Tom Wesselmann James RosenquisThomas Lenck Francis Bacon Horst Antes Shinkichi Tajiri Christo Jackson Pollock Karel Appel Bernard Schultze Otto Herbert Hajek Jacques Lipchitz Lynn Chadwick Paul Delvaux Helen Frankenthaler Wassily Kandinsky Fernand Leger Max Bill Joan Miro Henry Moore Pablo Picasso Robert Rauschenberg Giogio de Chirico Victor Vasarley Zoran Music Giuseppe Capogrossi Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Georg Wenderoth Verlag / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Pop Art Bauhaus Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic SALE

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 & VINYL

2018, English
Hardcover, 464 pages, 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Published by Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco

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Art & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on works of art created specifically for an album, composer or musician.

With reproductions of more than 200 LPs from the mid-20th century to the present, Art & Vinyl traces the trajectory of how the record album has been considered by artists as material for a work of art. The book begins with Pablo Picasso’s 1949 depiction of the dove of peace, printed directly on an audio disc. Significantly, the recording was Paul Robeson’s Chante Pour La Paix (Singing for Peace). Art & Vinyl also includes works by artists as disparate and wide-ranging as Ed Ruscha, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly, Yoko Ono, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Sophie Calle and Andy Warhol.

Highlights include Gerhard Richter’s extraordinary oil painting made directly on a recording of Glenn Gould’s Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1984), as well as Allan Kaprow’s LP How to Make a Happening (1966). Also featured are albums of original recordings by Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet, Christian Marclay and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. Some of the better-known artists’ covers for rock, pop and jazz albums featured here are Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Jim Dine’s cover for The Best of Cream; Lee Friedlander’s portrait of Miles Davis for In a Silent Way; Warhol’s cover for Sticky Fingers and Robert Frank’s Exile on Main Street; Mapplethorpe’s classic Patti Smith portrait for Horses; Robert Longo’s cover for Glenn Branca’s The Ascension; Fischli/Weiss’s Liliput; and Alec Soth’s cover for Dolorean’s The Unfazed.

Art & Vinyl has been assembled over the course of nearly a decade by curator and collector Antoine de Beaupré, author of Total Records and founder of Librarie Galerie 213 in Paris.

File under: Pablo Picasso Joseph Beuys Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Philip Glass John Cage Robert Mapplethorpe Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Glenn Branca Alec Soth Patti Smith Robert Longo Raymond Pettibon Keith Haring Malcolm McLaren Ed Ruscha Marlene Dumas Cy Twombly Yoko Ono Jean-Michel Basquiat Barbara Kruger Robert Rauschenberg Sol LeWitt Sophie Calle Andy Warhol Allan Kaprow Glenn Gould The Rolling Stones Gerhard Richter Yves Klein Jean Dubuffet Christian Marclay Wolfgang Tillmans Jim Dine Lee Friedlander Miles Davis Sonic Youth Antoine de Beaupré Jeffrey Fraenkel Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco Art Sound / Music Pop Art Fluxus

Art International
Vol. XIV/I January 20, 1970

1970, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by James Fitzsimmons / Lugano

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Art International, Vol. XIV/I January 20, 1970
Published and Edited by James Fitzsimmons
cover: Ron Robertson-Swann

Features: "Letter from Australia", a report on Australian art by Alan McLeod McCulloch (inc. Ron Robertson-Swann, Herbert Flugelman, Jock Clutterbuck, George Johnson, Stephen Walker, Owen Broughton, Les Kossatz, and more), Kazimir Malevich, Lucio del Pezzo, Christo, Konrad Klapheck, Victor Bonato, Joseph Beuys, Eliseo Mattiacci, Lambert Maria Wintersberger, Lewis Stein, Richerd Serra, Sol LeWitt, Gotthard Graubner, Robert Smithson, James Rosati, Fernando Botero, Robert Motherwell, Georges Yakoulov, Lioubov Popova, David Tremlett, Richard Smith, Guido Biasi, Max Bill, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Leon Polk Smith, Deborah Remington, Wassily Kandinsky, Saul Steinberg, Gary Kuehn, Sam Francis, Frank Stella, Karel Appel, and many more.

Art International was a highly regarded international art journal based in Switzerland from 1957-1984. With international editors and contributing writers, A.I. was issued 10 times per year and was published and edited by James A. Fitzsimmons.

File under: Kazimir Malevich Lucio del Pezzo Christo Konrad Klapheck Victor Bonato Joseph Beuys Eliseo Mattiacci Lambert Maria Wintersberger Lewis Stein Richerd Serra Sol LeWitt Gotthard Graubner Robert Smithson James Rosati Fernando Botero Robert Motherwell Georges Yakoulov Lioubov Popova David Tremlett Richard Smith Guido Biasi Max Bill Jean Dubuffet Helen Frankenthaler Leon Polk Smith Deborah Remington Wassily Kandinsky Saul Steinberg Gary Kuehn Sam Francis Frank Stella Karel Appel Ron Robertson-Swann Herbert Flugelman Jock Clutterbuck George Johnson Stephen Walker Owen Broughton Les Kossatz James Fitzsimmons / Lugano Art Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Art International
Vol. XI/7 September 20, 1967

1967, English / French / Italian
Softcover, 64 pages, 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by James Fitzsimmons / Lugano

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Art International, Vol. XI/7 September 20, 1967
Published and Edited by James Fitzsimmons
Advisory Editors: Umbro Apollonio, Jorge Romero Brest, Lucy R. Lippard, James Mellow.

Features: Helen Frankenthaler, Expo '67, Jean Tinguely, Alexander Calder, Max Bill, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Otto Frei, James Rosenquist, Claude Viseux, Henri Michaux, César, Antonio Saura, Piero Gilardi, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Arman, Pol Bury, Paul de Lussanet, Henry Moore, Luis Alberto Wells, Peter Schmidt, Erwin Heerich, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Kenneth Martin, Tim Scott, Allen Jones, Tess Jaray, Jean Dubuffet, Brassai, Tetsumi Kudo, Louise Nevelson, Marcel Duchamp, Raphael Jesus Soto, and many more.

Art International was a highly regarded international art journal based in Switzerland from 1957-1984. With international editors and contributing writers, A.I. was issued 10 times per year and was published and edited by James A. Fitzsimmons.

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

File under: Alexander Calder Allen Jones Andy Warhol Antonio Saura Arman Brassaï Claes Oldenburg Claude Viseux Erwin Heerich Frei Otto Helen Frankenthaler Henri Michaux Henry Moore James Rosenquist Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Kenneth Martin Louise Nevelson Luis Alberto Wells Marcel Duchamp Max Bill Michelangelo Pistoletto Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul de Lussanet Peter Schmidt Piero Gilardi Pol Bury Raphael Jesus Soto Roy Lichtenstein Tess Jaray Tetsumi Kudo Tim Scott César James Fitzsimmons James Mellow Jorge Romero Brest Lucy R. Lippard Umbro Apollonio James Fitzsimmons / Lugano Art Conceptual Art Drawing Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Art International
Vol. IX/II March 1965

1965, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by James Fitzsimmons / Lugano

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Art International, Vol. IX/II March 1965
Published and Edited by James Fitzsimmons

Features: Frederick Kiesler, Abraham Rattner, Henry Miller, Lucy R. Lippard, Ruth Vollmer, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Mattieu, Piet Mondrian, Carlo Carrà, Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Tomioki Tessai, Masuo Ikeda, Taizo Yoshinaka, Keiji Usami, Jasper Johns, Toshimitsu Imai, Toshinobu Onosato, John Hoyland, Abrella Giorgi, and many more.

Art International was a highly regarded international art journal based in Switzerland from 1957-1984. With international editors and contributing writers, A.I. was issued 10 times per year and was published and edited by James A. Fitzsimmons.

File under: Jean Dubuffet Frederick Kiesler Abraham Rattner Henry Miller Lucy R. Lippard Ruth Vollmer Jean Tinguely Nicolas de Staël Georges Mattieu Piet Mondrian Carlo Carrà Frank Stella Robert Morris Tomioki Tessai Masuo Ikeda Taizo Yoshinaka Keiji Usami Jasper Johns Toshimitsu Imai Toshinobu Onosato John Hoyland Abrella Giorgi Lucy R. Lippard Henry Miller James Fitzsimmons / Lugano Art Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Drawing Painting Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art Theory / Essay

Reliefs
Formprobleme zwischen Malerei und Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert

1981, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 286 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Out of print title / used / average
Published by Benteli Verlag / Bern

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Large hardcover exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in Switzerland in 1980. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, with many examples of artists from the exhibition. Artists included in the exhibition: Josef Albers, Cuno Amiet, Carl Andre, Jurij Annenkow, Alexander Archipeno, Arman, Gerd Arntz, Hans Arp, Richard Artschwager, Giacomo Balla, Ernst Barlach, Willi Baumeister, Bodo Baumgarten, Walter Bodmer, Lee Bontecou, Carl Buchheister, Erich Buchholz, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Carlo Carrà, John Chamberlain, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Csaky, Robert Delaunay, Jim Dine, Theo van Doesburg, César Domela, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Dan Flavin, Adolf Fleischmann, Lucio Fontana, Otto Freundlich, Naum Gabo, Paul Gaugin, Julio Gonzalez, Jean Gorin, Gotthard Graubner, Oto Gutfreund, Nigel Hall, August Herbin, Adolf von Hildebrand, Robert Irwin, Robert Jacobsen, Marcel Janco, Jasper Johns, Paul Joostens, Donald Judd, Zoltan Kemény, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Käthe Kollwitz, Norbert Kricke, Gary Kuehn, Berto Lardera, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Sol LeWitt, Jacques Lipchitz, El Lissitzky, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Manolo, Man Ray, Piero Manzoni, Henri Matisse, Gordon Matta-Clark, Joan Miró, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, François Morellet, Henry Moore, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Ben Nicholson, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Laszlo Peri, Antoine Pevsner, Jean Peyrissac, Pablo Picasso, Anne und Patrick Poirier, Iwan Puni, David Rabinowitch, Robert Rauschenberg, James Reineking, Erich Reusch, August Renoir, George Rickey, Auguste Rodin, Ulrich Rückriem, Christian Schad, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Jan Schoonhoven, Emil Schumacher, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segal, George Segal, Richard Serra, Gino Severini, Joel Shapiro, Richard Smith, Jesus Raphael Soto, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Daniel Spoerri, Henryk Stazewski, Frank Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Antonio Tàpies, Wladimir Tatlin, Jean Tinguely, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Ilya Tschaschnik, Leon Tutundjan, Günter Uecker, Bernar Venet, Friedrich Vordemberger-Gildewart, Fritz Wotruba.

Written contributions by Felix A. Baumann, Sabine Kricke-Güse, Ernst Gerhard-Güse, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Sigrid Braunfels-Esche, Margit Rowell, Wulf Herzogenrath, Willy Rotzler, Eduard Trier, and Thomas Deecke. Text in German.

Ex library copy with usual stamps and general wear, bumping, wrinkling, in good original dust jacket.

File under: Josef Albers Cuno Amiet Carl Andre Arman Gerd Arntz Richard Artschwager Giacomo Balla Ernst Barlach Willi Baumeister Bodo Baumgarten Walter Bodmer Lee Bontecou Carl Buchheister Erich Buchholz Alexander Calder Anthony Caro Carlo Carrà John Chamberlain Eduardo Chillida Christo Joseph Cornell Joseph Csaky Robert Delaunay Jim Dine Theo van Doesburg César Domela Jean Dubuffet Marcel Duchamp Raymond Duchamp-Villon Max Ernst Dan Flavin Adolf Fleischmann Lucio Fontana Otto Freundlich Naum Gabo Paul Gaugin Julio Gonzalez Jean Gorin Gotthard Graubner Oto Gutfreund Nigel Hall Adolf von Hildebrand Robert Irwin Robert Jacobsen Marcel Janco Jasper Johns Paul Joostens Donald Judd Zoltan Kemény Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Käthe Kollwitz Norbert Kricke Gary Kuehn Berto Lardera Henri Laurens Fernand Léger Wilhelm Lehmbruck Sol LeWitt Jacques Lipchitz El Lissitzky Vilhelm Lundstrøm René Magritte Aristide Maillol Manolo Man Ray Piero Manzoni Henri Matisse Gordon Matta-Clark Joan Miró László Moholy-Nagy François Morellet Henry Moore Robert Morris Louise Nevelson Ben Nicholson Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Victor Pasmore Laszlo Peri Antoine Pevsner Jean Peyrissac Pablo Picasso Anne und Patrick Poirier Iwan Puni David Rabinowitch Robert Rauschenberg James Reineking Erich Reusch August Renoir George Rickey Auguste Rodin Ulrich Rückriem Christian Schad Oskar Schlemmer Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Jan Schoonhoven Emil Schumacher Kurt Schwitters Arthur Segal George Segal Richard Serra Gino Severini Joel Shapiro Richard Smith Jesus Raphael Soto Giuseppe Spagnulo Daniel Spoerri Henryk Stazewski Frank Stella Sophie Taeuber-Arp Wladimir Tatlin Jean Tinguely Joaquin Torres-Garcia Ilya Tschaschnik Leon Tutundjan Günter Uecker Bernar Venet Friedrich Vordemberger-Gildewart Fritz Wotruba Antoni Tàpies Yuri Annenkov Alexander Archipenko Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Auguste Herbin Benteli Verlag / Bern Art Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Dada Minimal Art Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

Önskemuseet : The Museum of Our Wishes

1963, Swedish
Softcover, 76 pages, 16.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm

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Önskemuseet: The Museum of Our Wishes (December 26, 1963 - February 16, 1964), was a unique and very ambitious exhibition initiated by director Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet staff that gathered together a collection of modernist art from private owners, in order to present to the public and political administration their vision of what a museum collection could actually be. The exhibition featured works from private collections alongside a “wish list” of works that were still available on the market, calling for the government to allocate funds for purchasing new works for the museum. The request was acknowledged and the Museum received a one-off allocation of five million kronor, a substantial amount in today’s currency, which enabled the purchase of several works that now constitute the core of the collection, positioning Moderna Museet as one of the most dynamic and committed contemporary art institutions of the 1960s.

This is a copy of the first and only edition of the catalogue for the exhibition, which makes up a visual checklist of the artworks and artists featured in this enormous exhibit, taking it's form from art history guides that had started to be created after the war.
Includes introduction by Gerard Boniier as well as additional text by Olle Granath, K.G. Hulten, Ulf Linde and Karin Bergqvist Lindegren. Features works by Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Emil Nolde, Edwin Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Oscar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Chaim Soutine, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Roger de la Fresnaye, Henri Laurens, Amédée Ozenfant, Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Lipchitz, Giacomo Balla, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Antoine Pevsner, Georges Vantongerloo, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Naum Gabo, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, Charles Despiau, Andre Derain, Maurice Utrillo, Amedeo Modigliani, Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Marie Laurencin, Constantin Brancusi, Julio Gonzales, Paul Klee, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Juan Miró, Andre Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Alberto Giacometti, Wilfredo Lam, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Sebastian Matta, Henry Moore, Roger Bissière, Jean Bazaine, Maurice Esteve, Alfred Manessier, Nicolas De Staël, Auguste Herbin, Serge Poliafkoff, Victor Pasmore, Barnett Newman, Richard Mortensen, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Germaine Richier, Francis Bacon, Wols, Asger Jorn, Alberto Burri, Antonio Tapies, Karel Appel, Mark Tobey, Fritz Hundertwasser, Mark Rothko, Archile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Sam Francis, Robert Jacobsen, Robert Rauschenberg, Enrico Baj, César, Jasper Johns, Richard Stankiewicz, Jean Tinguely, Arman, and Yves Klein.

All texts in Swedish. The bulk of the reproductions are in black-and-white with several larger, tipped-in images in color.
Ex-library copy with stamps, stickers and covering. Otherwise a good copy.

File under: Henri Matisse Georges Rouault Raoul Dufy Emil Nolde Erich Heckel Max Beckmann Chaim Soutine Wassily Kandinsky Pablo Picasso Georges Braque Jacques Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon Henri Le Fauconnier Fernand Léger Robert Delaunay Roger de la Fresnaye Henri Laurens Amédée Ozenfant Juan Gris Alexander Archipenko Jacques Lipchitz Giacomo Balla Ardengo Soffici Carlo Carrà Umberto Boccioni Gino Severini Francis Picabia Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Kurt Schwitters Piet Mondrian El Lissitzky Theo van Doesburg Antoine Pevsner Georges Vantongerloo Sophie Tauber-Arp Naum Gabo Alexander Calder Germaine Richier Francis Bacon Wols Alberto Burri Antonio Tapies Karel Appel Mark Tobey Fritz Hundertwasser Mark Rothko Willem de Kooning Jackson Pollock Jean-Paul Riopelle Sam Francis Robert Jacobsen Robert Rauschenberg Enrico Baj César Jasper Johns Richard Stankiewicz Jean Tinguely Arman Yves Klein Asger Jorn René Magritte Yves Tanguy Alberto Giacometti Victor Brauner Salvador Dalí Sebastian Matta Henry Moore Roger Bissière Jean Bazaine Maurice Esteve Alfred Manessier Nicolas De Staël Auguste Herbin Victor Pasmore Barnett Newman Richard Mortensen Jean Fautrier Lucio Fontana Henri Michaux Jean Dubuffet Marc Chagall Max Ernst Otto Dix Ben Shahn Marie Laurencin Constantin Brancusi Julio Gonzales Paul Klee Giorgio de Chirico Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Maurice Utrillo Amedeo Modigliani Charles Despiau André Derain Arshile Gorky Oskar Kokoschka André Masson Joan Miró László Moholy-Nagy Wifredo Lam Serge Poliakoff Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Olle Granath K.G. Hulten Ulf Linde Karin Bergqvist Lindegren Gerard Boniier Pontus Hultén Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Painting Dada Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Drawing Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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First, hardcover 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.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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