World Food Books

The Farm at Black Mountain College

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

$74.00 - In stock -

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

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

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

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

Christina Kubisch
Zwischenräume

1996, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Stadtgalerie / Saarbrücken

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First 1996 edition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of German installation/sound artist Christina Kubisch (b. 1948) at Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken in 1996. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many accompanying texts in bi-lingual English/German by Bernd Schulz, Wendy Steiner, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Michael Glasmeier, along with a bibliography and biography.

Christina Kubisch is a pioneering German sound artist and composer. Born in Bremen in 1948, she studied painting, composition, and electronic music in Hamburg, Graz, Zurich, and Milan. Her performances, concerts, electromagnetic sound installations, and projects with ultraviolet light incorporate different forms of sound technology and often invite audience participation. Christina has exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows and participated in the Venice Biennale and documenta 8, among many others. The recipient of many international awards, grants, and residencies, including a DAAD working scholarship, a German studio grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, the Heidelberg Artists Prize, and the Doual’art artist residency in Cameroon, she is also a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and has held professorships in Paris, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Vienna, and Oxford.

Very Good copy.

File under: Christina Kubisch John Cage Bernd Schulz Wendy Steiner Helga de la Motte-Haber Michael Glasmeier Stadtgalerie / Saarbrücken Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art

Resonance Vol 9 No 2

2002, English
Softcover (staple-bound + audio cd), 54 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by London Musicians Collective / London

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Vol 9 No 2 (2002) issue of Resonance magazine, the legendary periodical of contemporary, experimental and improvised music that grew out of Musics (1975—1979) and The London Musicians Collective (LMC), a cultural charity and collective based in London, England, founded in 1975.

This issue features Toshimaru Nakamura, Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins, Xentos Fray Bentos, Knut Aufermann, David Lee Myers, Phil Durrant, Michael Prime, Matt Rogalsky and Barry G. Nichols. Plus record & book reviews + obituary of Gareth Williams (This Heat) by Ed Baxter + photographs by Kathrin Brunnert of the 10th Annual LMC Festival, and much much more.

78 minute CD includes music by David Tudor, John Cage, plus all the magazine article contributors (Myers, Aufermann, Nakamura, Collins, Lucier, Prime, Rogalsky, Durrant, Xentos, ECM:323 & TunkSystems)

Very Good copy, light cover wear.

File under: Toshimaru Nakamura Alvin Lucier Nicolas Collins Xentos Fray Bentos Knut Aufermann David Lee Myers Phil Durrant Michael Prime Gareth Williams This Heat David Tudor John Cage Xentos Fray Bentos Ed Baxter London Musicians Collective / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Fluxus

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

$120.00 - In stock -

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Schizo-Culture: The Event, the Book
2 Volume boxset

2014, English
2 volume Softcover (in hardcover slip case), 240 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

$95.00 - Out of stock

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The legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-’68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze’s first presentation of the concept of the “rhizome” to Foucault’s introduction of his History of Sexuality project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion “Schizo-Culture” revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture.

The “Schizo-Culture” issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green, it documented the chaotic creativity of an emerging downtown New York scene, and offered interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Foucault, R. D. Laing, and other conference participants.

This slip-cased edition includes The Book: 1978, a facsimile reproduction of the original Schizo-Culture publication; and The Event: 1975, a previously unpublished and comprehensive record of the conference that set it all off. It assembles many previously unpublished texts, including a detailed selection of interviews reconstructing the events, and features Félix Guattari, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michel Foucault, Sylvère Lotringer, Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze, John Rajchman, Robert Wilson, Joel Kovel, Jack Smith, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Ti-Grace Atkinson, François Peraldi, and John Cage.

File under: Jack Smith John Cage William S. Burroughs Felix Guattari Gilles Deleuze Guy Hocquenghem Jack Smith Jean-François Lyotard Joel Kovel John Cage John Rajchman Kathy Acker Michel Foucault Robert Wilson Sylvère Lotringer Ti-Grace Atkinson William S. Burroughs SylveÌre Lotringer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Theory / Essay Arte Povera Sound / Music Feminism Film / Video Counterculture LGBTQ+ Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Semiotext(e) Vol. III, No. 2, 1978 — Schizo-Culture

1978, English
Softcover, 226 pages, 25.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Rare copy of the breakthrough "Schizo-Culture" issue of the original Semiotext(e) journal, published and edited by Sylvère Lotringer between 1974—1985, with later book-length issues appearing in the 1990s. This historical, controversial issue, “consummated the magazine’s rupture with academe”—Sylvère Lotringer. "Schizo-Culture' was published in the wake of the legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, conceived by the early Semiotext(e) collective, that began as an attempt to introduce the then-unknown radical philosophies of post-’68 France to the American avant-garde. The event featured a series of seminal papers, from Deleuze’s first presentation of the concept of the “rhizome” to Foucault’s introduction of his History of Sexuality project. The conference was equally important on a political level, and brought together a diverse group of activists, thinkers, patients, and ex-cons in order to address the challenge of penal and psychiatric institutions. The combination proved to be explosive, but amid the fighting and confusion “Schizo-Culture” revealed deep ruptures in left politics, French thought, and American culture. The “Schizo-Culture” issue of the Semiotext(e) journal came three years later. Designed by a group of artists and filmmakers including Kathryn Bigelow and Denise Green with schizophrenia type/image-setting, the issue’s contributors included a kind of who’s who of New York’s downtown art scene (Jack Smith, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker...), documenting the artistic chaos, offering interviews with artists, theorists, writers, and No Wave and pre-punk musicians together with new texts from Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault, Laing, and other conference participants and key “French theory” figures. It also featured a delirious essay about markings on the savage body, by one Alphonso F. Lingis; an intimate interview with a member of an all-female street gang in the Bronx; and a detailed history of behavior-modification programs inside US correctional institutions (post-Attica), written from inside by prisoner activist Eddie Griffin. Gary Indiana has said that reading “Schizo-Culture” was one of the things that made it clear to him that he would inevitably move to New York.

Includes: Michel Foucault, Robert Wilson, Francois Peraldi, Guy Hocquenghem, The Ramones, William S. Burroughs, Louis Wolfson, Lee Breuer, Eddie Griffin, Wendy Clark, Elie C. Messinger, David Cooper, Martine Barrat, John Giorno, Alphonso F. Lingis, Bernard-Henri Levy, Kathy Acker, Richard Foreman, André Cadere, Ulrike Meinhof, Gilles Deleuze, John Cage, Pat Steir , Jean-Jacques Abrahams, Phil Glass, Jack Smith, Jean Francois Lyotard, Douglas Dunn, and others...

Good copy with age wear, marking and tanning to raw stocks.

File under: Robert Wilson The Ramones Lee Breuer Kathryn Bigelow Denise Green André Cadere John Cage Philip Glass Jack Smith Richard Foreman Jean-François Lyotard Michel Foucault Robert Wilson Francois Peraldi Guy Hocquenghem Kathy Acker Louis Wolfson Lee Breuer Eddie Griffin Wendy Clark Elie C. Messinger David Cooper Martine Barrat John Giorno Alphonso F. Lingis Bernard-Henri Levy Ulrike Meinhof Gilles Deleuze Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Felix Guattari John Cage Jean-Jacques Abrahams Douglas Dunn Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Counterculture Feminism Film / Video Art Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Anarchism Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Drugs / Psychedelia Psychoanalysis Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Javier Maderuelo
UNA MUSICA PARA LOS 80 / A MUSIC FOR THE 80's

1981, Spanish
Softcover, 104 pages, 17 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editorial Garsi / Madrid

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Very rare copy of UNA MUSICA PARA LOS 80 by Spanish experimental composer, poet and art critic Javier Maderuelo (b. 1950), published in 1981 in Madrid by Editorial Garsi. This essential compact chronicle was written by Maderuelo to introduce the phenomenon of so-called contemporary music in Spain (electroacoustic, musique concrète, experimental, ambient, sound art, et al.) and analyse the varied positions of its leading protagonists, such as the Zaj group, Suso Sáiz, Eduardo Polonio, Llorenç Balsach, Amadeu Marin, Llorenç Barber, Carles Santos, José Iges, Antoni Caimari, Pedro Estevan, Josep Lluís Berenguer Moreno, Javier Maderuelo (himself a member of studio Alea between 1973-1977 and the musical movement Elenfante), amongst others. With critical overviews, profiles, discographies, bibliographies, chronologies of exhibitions and concerts, this is indeed a vital document on Spanish avant-garde sound c. 1970—1981.

Javier Maderuelo (Madrid, 1950) became interested in experimental poetry and art in 1972 under the influence of Fernando Millán, José Luis Castillejo and Felipe Boso, as well as artists like Elena Asins, Juan Hidalgo and Javier Aguirre, with whom he collaborated. He began producing typewritten poems and collages with texts extracted from newspapers, which converge in the unpublished book Arte Cisoria (1981). Felipe Boso introduced him to the world of phonetic poetry and with Pedro Estevan and María Villa he cofounded the Glotis Group (1979), dedicated to disseminating both the work of avant-garde poets, as well as neo-avant-garde works, some of them expressly written for Glotis. As a composer, he worked at the electronic music studio Alea (1973-1977) and was part of the musical movement Elenfante. He was a member of the Seminar of Analysis and Automatic Generation of Musical Forms, run by Florentino Briones, collaborating on the SIMO concerts. At the end of the eighties he abandoned poetic and musical creation to devote himself to an academic career.

Very Good copy with cover wrap cleanly disconnected from book block (old glue), tanned spine, otherwise VG throughout.

File under: Zaj group Suso Sáiz Eduardo Polonio Llorenç Balsach Amadeu Marin Llorenç Barber Carles Santos José Iges Antoni Caimari Pedro Estevan Josep Lluís Berenguer Moreno Javier Maderuelo Walter Marchetti John Cage Editorial Garsi / Madrid Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry

Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage
by Branden W. Joseph

2008, English
Softcover, 489 pages, 15.3 x 22.8 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt’s radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has significantly impacted cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, “concept art,” postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure.

Rather, by drawing on Deleuzian notions of the “minor” and the Foucauldian problematization of authorship found in Conrad’s own artistic/musical project, Early Minimalism, it disperses him into an “author function.” Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad’s collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections amongst the arts of the time.

“A tour de force of both interpretative and historiographic acuity.”—Art Bulletin

File under: Jack Smith Henry Flynt Tony Conrad The Velvet Underground John Cage Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Cindy Sherman The Theatre of Eternal Music Branden W. Joseph Zone Books / New York Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Minimal Art Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video

John Cage

2002, English
Softcover (staple bound), 52 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Edition Peters / New York

$25.00 - Out of stock

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2002 artist catalogue of works by American Experimental composer John Cage. This publication features a comprehensive index of Cage's compositions and works, updated to the year of publication. A important resource for Cagians. Published by Edition Peters, New York.

Very Good copy.

File under: John Cage Edition Peters / New York Fluxus Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art Theory / Essay

Total Expansion of the Letter Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
By Trevor Stark

2020, English
Hardcover, 440 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn,” centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cubists and Dadaists—including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Tristan Tzara—appropriated bureaucratic paperwork, newspapers, popular songs, and advertisements, only to render them dysfunctional and incommunicative. In doing so, Stark argues, these figures contended with the utopian vision of the late nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who promised a “total expansion of the letter.”

In his poems, Mallarmé claimed, “the act of writing was scrutinized down to its origins.” This scrutiny, however, delivered his work into an indeterminate zone between mediums, social practices, and temporalities—a paradox that reverberates through Stark's wide-ranging case studies in the history of the avant-garde. Stark examines Picasso's nearly abstract works of 1910, which promised to unite painting and writing at the brink of illegibility; the cubists' “hope of an anonymous art,” expressed in newspaper collages and industrial colors; the collaborative, cacophonous invention of “simultaneous poems” by the Dadaists in Zurich during World War I; and Duchamp's artistic exploration of chance in gambling and finance. Each of these cases reflected the avant-garde's transformative encounter with the premise of Mallarmé's poetics: that language—the very medium of human communication and community—is perpetually in flux and haunted by emptiness.

As certain artists experimenting in the postwar orbit of John Cage well knew, it was not he who introduced the conceptual scope of chance and musical metric into the language of art. In his brilliant book on Mallarmé's legacy—sure to correct the record—Trevor Stark positions the Coup de Dés as the first score of the twentieth century. Inhabiting industrialism's destruction of the subject, and an infinite abstraction—as chance gave way to indeterminism—Mallarmé encoded his best-known poem with score-like traits (time/realization) and ambiguity (language's readymade indeterminacy); thus he cast the death of the author like a bottle thrown at sea. Such stakes are clear because Stark makes them so. With not a word or a sentence wasted, he adroitly guides us through the Mallarméan dimensions of three pivotal experiments: Braque and Picasso's introduction of text into pictorial space (1910/1912); the temporal-auditory collage of Tzara's simultaneous poems honed in the collectivism of Zurich Dada; and Duchamp's ultimate transvaluation of art/work in Monte Carlo. The often-startling fruits of Stark's meticulous research are presented with a light touch, a space for realization; yet we sense the intellectual and “intermedial” virtuosity the author brings to the task—handling, deciphering, hearing, seeing, translating, across disciplines, languages, and time(s)—to convey his cases and insights to 21st-century readers with the force of contemporaneity. — Julia E. Robinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at New York University; curator of the exhibition John Cage & Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence

File under: John Cage Marcel Broodthaers Pablo Picasso Tristan Tzara Marcel Duchamp Paul Cezanne Georges Braque Francis Picabia Hugo Ball F.T. Marinetti Trevor Stark Stéphane Mallarmé Tristan Tzara Martin Heidegger Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Edmund Husserl Maurice Merleau-Ponty The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Dada Fluxus

John Cage

1962, English
Softcover, 78 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Henmar Press Inc. / New York Edition Peters / New York

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Rare 1962 artist catalogue of works by American Experimental composer John Cage. With foreword by Cage, this publication features a comprehensive index of Cage's compositions, illustrations, interview between Cage and Roger Reynolds, biography, excerpts from reviews and critical articles, bibliography of reviews and critical articles, index of persons, portrait of Cage by Lutfi Özkök, and catalogue organised by Robert Dunn. A remarkable resource for Cagians. Published by Edition Peters and Henmar Press Inc., New York.

Very Good copy with light cover wear.

File under: John Cage John Cage Roger Reynolds Robert Dunn Henmar Press Inc. / New York Edition Peters / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

John Cage
Silence : Lectures and Writings by John Cage

1961 / 1967, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 276 pages, 24 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wesleyan University Press / US

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Rare first 1961 edition, second 1967 printing of Silence: Lectures and Writings, a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is Cage's classic collection of essays and lectures written during the period from 1939 to 1961. Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away."—J.C.

Very Good copy of the first edition, second print from 1967. VG book in VG dust jacket with light rubbing to the black print.

File under: John Cage John Cage Wesleyan University Press / US Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Minimal Art

Hanne Darboven / John Cage
A Dialogue of Artworks

2000, English
Softcover, 84 pages, 20.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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This short monograph combines works by Hanne Darboven and John Cage from the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst in Munich. It shows the independent oeuvres of two highly individual artists whose works touch upon Minimal Art. Joachim Kaak's substantial essay examines Hanne Darboven's 7 Tafeln, II from 1972/73, a geometric construction on squared millimetre paper based on prime numbers and the square. Corinna Thierolf analyses John Cage's Ryoanji, a loose series of drawings made between 1983 and 1992. The title refers to the rock garden of the Ryoanji monastery in the north-west of Kyoto. With the help of the I Ching, the ancient book of wisdom and truth which Cofucius re-edited. Cage established a number system by which he encircled 15 stones he had picked out himself with 17 different pencils. On the basis of a complex concept based on random operations, this created partly very delicate circular formations, partly a structure composed of a dense tissue of lines. These are reproduced in this book according to a rhythm predetermined by John Cage.

English edition. Near Fine.

File under: Hanne Darboven John Cage Joachim Kaak Corinna Thieroff Corinna Thierolf Hatje Cantz / Berlin Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Sound / Music Conceptual Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art

Mark Tobey / Morris Graves / John Cage
Sounds of the Inner Eye / Klänge Des Inneren Auges

2002, German / English
Softcover, 280 pages, 22.2 x 27.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

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Published to accompany a 2002 exhibition of Mark Tobey / Morris Graves / John Cage appearing at the Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, Germany) and the Museum of Glass (Tacoma, Washington), this catalog is profusely illustrated throughout with many of the artists' works as well as interpretive and biographical essays and a chronology. The three artists were friends and collaborators linked by their connections with the Pacific Northwest, their appellation as Northwest Mystics, and, more deeply, by their shared artistic concerns. John Cage composer, philosopher, writer, and visual artist wrote extensively about Tobey and Graves, and his writings are included here as well.

Original German edition with many texts also in English, in particular Cage's.
Near Fine copy.

File under: Mark Tobey Morris Graves John Cage Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Minimal Art Fluxus Painting Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Ocean of Sound : Aether Talk, Ambient Sounds and Imaginary Worlds
by David Toop

1995 / 1996, English
Softcover, 306 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Serpent's Tail / London

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Extremely rare first edition of the classic account of ambient music by English musician, author, curator, and professor, David Toop. David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, from David Lynch's house, high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of (and interviews with) artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Aphex Twin, Lee Perry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound, from new rhythmic and tonal influences to the sounds of war, machines, and the new digital revolution.

"A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras"—Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

Very Good copy. First edition, second print run.

File under: Brian Eno Sun Ra Erik Satie Aphex Twin Lee Perry Ryuichi Sakamoto Kate Bush Kraftwerk Brian Wilson Karlheinz Stockhausen Harold Budd Edgard Varèse Frank Zappa The Velvet Underground La Monte Young Terry Riley Basil Kirchin Jon Hassell John Coltrane Phill Niblock John McLaughlin Alvin Lucier Manuel Göttsching Ash Ra Temple Peter Brötzmann David Bowie John Cage William S. Burroughs Don Cherry Cocteau Twins Ornette Coleman Gavin Bryars Miles Davis Ira Cohen Alice Coltrane Morton Feldman Alvin Curran Eric Dolphy Herbie Hancock Joe Meek Roland Kirk Claude Debussy Deep Listening Band Bill Evans Julee Cruise Biosphere LTJ Bukem Marian Zazeela Duke Ellington Albert Ayler AMM The Beatles Beach Boys Chet Baker Les Baxter Antonin Artaud Hakim Bey Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) Joris-Karl Huysmans Gustave Flaubert Antonin Artaud Jacques Attali J.G. Ballard Philip K. Dick H. P. Lovecraft Serpent's Tail / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art

Minute Particulars: Meanings in Music-making in the Wake of Hierachial Realignments and Other Essays
by Edwin (Eddie) Prevost (AMM)

2004, English
Softcover, 177 pages, 15.2 x x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Matchless / Essex

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Eddie Prevost (AMM)'s 2nd book of writings to be published by Matchless. Subtitled: "Meanings in music-making in the wake of hierarchal realignments and other essays." In 177 pages Eddie Prévost includes twenty-nine thought-provoking essays on ideas, perceptions, reactions and the practices of improvised music, as well as a short index. Reactions to the real world - in particular, the political, corporate and commercial ones - are never far from the surface and the place of the individual is mirrored through that of the musician developing his or her own position, responsiveness and voice in a group context. Discourses include the questioning of terminology such as 'non-idiomatic' to describe improvised music, cover sonic extremes and racial focus in current and recent musical endeavours, and revisit an hilarious review of reviews of the Ganelan Trio's first London concert in 1984. The premise with which each essay begins is analysed, explored and intellectually wrestled with so that even if the reader doesn't concur with the conclusions, at least there is food for further thought. Occasionally there is the impression of a Candide innocently walking through an embattled and battered musical landscape wondering where it's all gone wrong. Not sufficiently to suggest that the author made the wrong decision in becoming a musician - if there was a choice - and, in any case, there is the occasional footnote to indicate that perhaps (some) things are now on the mend. A recommended read.

As New, sealed copy.

File under: AMM John Zorn Edwin Prevost Eddie Prevost The Ganelin Trio Keith Rowe John Tilbury John Cage Cornelius Cardew Edwin Prevost Eddie Prevost Matchless / Essex Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

Crossings – Kunst zum Hören und Sehen (Art to Hear and See)

1999, German
Softcover + CD, 230 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

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First edition w. CD, published in 1998 to accompany the exhibition Crossings – Art to Hear and See, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Cathrin Pichler and Edek Bartz. "CROSSINGS" is about the meeting of music and visual arts. An encounter that was expressed in many facets and forms in the 20th century, featuring works by: Mario Airò, Richard Artschwager, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Daniel Egg, Angus Fairhurst, Jochen Gerz, Douglas Gordon, Franz Graf, Dan Graham, Henrik Hakansson, Russel Haswell, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Arto Lindsay, Stephan von Huene, Lee Jaffe, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Milan Knízák, Bernhard Leitner, Hans-Peter Litscher, Christian Marclay, Charles Long, Alvin Lucier, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB, Yoko Ono, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Paul Panhuysen, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Prina, Alan Rath, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sarkís, Christoph Steinbrener, Wolfgang Stengel, Ned Sublette, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Weibel.

Very Good with audio CD featuring many of the artists above.

File under: Mario Airò Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Angela Bulloch John Cage Henning Christiansen Martin Creed Jeremy Deller Stan Douglas Daniel Egg Angus Fairhurst Jochen Gerz Douglas Gordon Franz Graf Dan Graham Henrik Hakansson Russel Haswell Carl Michael von Hausswolff Dick Higgins Gary Hill Noritoshi Hirakawa Arto Lindsay Stephan von Huene Lee Jaffe Mike Kelley Jon Kessler Milan Knížák Sarkis Bernhard Leitner Hans-Peter Litscher Christian Marclay Charles Long Alvin Lucier Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB Yoko Ono Albert Oehlen Nam June Paik Paul Panhuysen Michelangelo Pistoletto Stephen Prina Alan Rath Gerwald Rockenschaub Christoph Steinbrener Wolfgang Stengel Ned Sublette Lawrence Weiner Peter Weibel Cathrin Pichler Edek Bartz Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Art Sound / Music

Minimalism:Origins
by Edward Strickland

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages, 15.5 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London

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Long out-of-print first hardcover edition of Minimalism:Origins by Edward Strickland, published in 1993 by Indiana University Press.

... a landmark work, the first attempt to write a pre-history of minimalism that embraces all the arts. Its importance cannot be overestimated." —K. Robert Schwarz, Institute for Studies in American Music

All told, this book is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and nature of minimalism." —i/e/ NINE

The death of Minimalism is announced regularly, which may be the surest testimonial to its staying power." This is the opening sentence of Edward Strickland's study, the first to examine in detail Minimalist tendencies in the plastic arts and music.

The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd, both of whom detested the word. In the late 1970s it gained currency when applied to the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

In the first part of the book, "Paint", Strickland shows how Minimalism offered a rethinking of the main schools of abstract art to mid-century. Within Abstract Expressionism Barnett Newman opposed the stylistic complexity of confessional action painting with non-gestural, color-field painting. Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly reconceived the rhythmic construction of earlier Geometrical Abstraction in "invisible" and brilliant monochromes respectively; and Robert Rauschenberg created Dadaist anti-art in pure white panels. Next, Strickland surveys Minimal music from La Monte Young's long-tone compositions of the fifties to his drone works of the Theatre of Eternal Music. He examines the effect of foreign and nonclassical American musics on Terry Riley's motoric repetition developed from his tape experimentation, Steve Reich's formulation of phasing technique; and Philip Glass's unison modules. The third part of the book treats the development of Minimal sculpture and its critical reception. Strickland also discusses analogous Minimalist tendencies in dance, film, and literature as well as the incorporation of once-shocking Minimalist vocabulary into mass culture from fashion to advertising.

Investigating the origins of Minimalism in postwar American culture, Strickland redefines it as a movement the developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media over the third quarter of the twentieth century. A survey with wit.

Very Good—Fine copy w. VG dust jacket preserved under mylar.

File under: Barnett Newman Ellsworth Kelly Ad Reinhardt Robert Rauschenberg La Monte Young Terry Riley Donald Judd Steve Reich Philip Glass John Cage Robert Morris Edward Strickland Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London Minimal Art Painting Art Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

Enclosure 3: Harry Partch
Edited by Philip Blackburn

1997, English
Hardcover (in publisher's box, stamped book), 524 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by American Composers Forum / Minnesota

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First 1997 hardcover (boxed) edition of Enclosure 3: Harry Partch, produced, compiled, designed and edited by Philip Blackburn and published in this deluxe volume by American Composers Forum in Minnesota in a limited edition of only 800 copies. Harry Partch (1901—1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. This lavish coffee table bio-scrapbook is a portrait chronicle of Partch's life and work compiled from original documents, reproduced throughout. Includes over 300 photographs by Partch and others, reproductions of Partch's writings and letters - a mass of important material (corres. inc. Anais Nin, John Cage, W.B. Yeats, Martha Graham, etc), lectures, drawings, reviews, sketches... A remarkable and beautifully made artefact. Limited edition of 800 copies. A "must have" for anyone with an abiding interest in musical "alternative universes".

Composer Harry Partch created a music that by its nature led to the Harry Partch invention of a fantastic array of percussion instruments. Rejecting equal temperament and much of Western musical heritage, he developed a system based on Just tuning and conceived of a "corporeality" that demanded special instrumental resources. He spoke of himself as "a musician seduced into carpentry" and built sculpture-like instruments such as the Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, and Quadrangularis Reversum. His music, mostly dramatic, was influenced by, among other things, Chinese lullabies, Yaqui Indian music, Christian hymns, his experiences as a hobo, Greek philosophy and drama, and jazz. His large-scale dramas required that the percussionists become actor-dancers. Among his major works are "Delusion of the Fury," "The Wayward," "Revelation in the Courthouse Park" and "Oedipus."

Fine copy in the seldom preserved publisher's box and with the Partch signature stamp to front endpaper. A stunning collector copy.

File under: Harry Partch John Cage Anaïs Nin W.B. Yeats American Composers Forum / Minnesota Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Performance / Dance / Theater

A Something Else Reader

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

$66.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

$110.00 - Out of stock

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

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

Very Good copy.

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