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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

$85.00 - Out of stock

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

$110.00 - Out of stock

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

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

Very Good copy.

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

The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music

1981, English
Softcover, 89 pages, 20 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Hearts of Space / San Francisco

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First, very rare edition of The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music: An Annotated Listing of the Music Heard Since 1973 on the Weekly Radio Program Music from the Hearts of Space, self-published by The Hearts of Space, San Fransisco. First produced in 1973 by presenter Stephen Hill with co-producer Anna Turner, Hearts of Space is a pioneering weekly syndicated public radio show in California featuring music of a contemplative nature drawn largely from the ambient, New Age and electronic genres, while also including classical, world, Celtic, experimental, and other music selections. For many years, Hill has applied the term "space music" to the music broadcast on the show, irrespective of genre. It is the longest-running radio program of its type in the world. It was first broadcast as Music from the Hearts of Space, a three-hour long late-night show on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Each episode ends with Hill gently saying, "Safe journeys, space fans ... wherever you are."

This annotated listening guide traverses the spectrum of space music presented on the radio throughout the 1970s-80s, with the editors providing introductions, glossary of genres, descriptions of each record, alongside interspersed reflections on sound by scholars, composers, artists, poets, architects — everyone from Cage to Inayat Khan, Steiner to Wagner. Includes a list of related material including reading, retail and mail-order sources, as well as a full index and record label contacts. An indispensable volume for anyone interested in ambient music, beautifully designed by Janaia Marisolle.

Good copy with light wear and creases.

File under: Janaia Marisolle Rudolf Steiner John Cage Alexander Scriabin Cyrille Verdeaux Popol Vuh Vangelis Brian Eno Manuel Göttsching Ash Ra Tempel Robert Fripp Moebius Tangerine Dream Don Robertson Constance Demby Peter Michael Hamel Paul Horn Kevin Braheny Roedelius Klaus Schulze Mike Oldfield Steve Hillage Terry Riley Steve Reich Philip Glass Walter Carlos Tomita Morton Feldman Edgar Froese Pauline Oliveras Jean Michel Jarre Michael Garrison Jordan de la Sierra Harold Budd Michael Stearns Iasos Eberhard Schoener Ariel Kalma Henry Wolff Nancy Hennings Joanna Brouk Maggi Payne Don Slepian Pandit Pran Nath Ali Akbar Khan The Velvet Underground John Lennon Pink Floyd Between/Peter Michael Hamel Bruce Cockburn Sally Oldfield Judee Sill Alan Stivell George Harrison Fleetwood Mac Sandy Denny Far East Family Band Jerry Garcia The Grateful Dead The Beatles Alice Coltrane Ralph Towner John Abercrombie Jan Garbarek Eberhard Weber Keith Jarrett Weather Report The Paul Winter Consort Steven Halpern Laura Allen Gyorgy Ligeti Gavin Bryars Buffy St. Marie Stephen Hill Anna Turner John Cage Rudolf Steiner Hazrat Inayat Khan The Hearts of Space / San Francisco Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Rolf Julius
Small Music (Grau)

1996, English / German
Softcover, 256 pages, 16 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first edition of Small Music (Grau), the first major documentation on the work of sound artist Rolf Julius (1939 — 2011) who operated in the border area between music and visual arts. Published in 1996 to accompany the exhibitions in Heidelberg, Saarbrücken, and Heilbronn, 1995—1996, and since long out-of-print. Heavily illustrated throughout with many texts by Julius and accompanying essays. Rolf Julius has frequently been compared to John Cage for his attempts of integrating the world of common noises into the realm of sounds. "The surface of a sound interests me. Is it round or angled, grinding and raw, or smooth, etc." Julius thus creates extraordinary sound installations which can be described as "music for the eyes" and have secured him an unmistakeable place in the spectrum of contemporary art. An important book for anyone interested in Julius or Cage's concept of "Small Music" or ambient/field recording in general.

Very Good copy.

File under: John Cage Rolf Julius Rolf Julius Kehrer Verlag / Heidelberg Art Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

The Lyotard Reader and Guide
Edited by Keith Crome and James Williams

2006, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 15.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Columbia University Press / New York

$35.00 - Out of stock

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First edition.

The Lyotard Reader and Guide is a one-stop companion to Lyotard's thought. It covers the full range of his works, from his three main books (Discours, figure; Libidinal Economy; and The Differend) and up to his influential essays in The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables.

The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.

Keith Crome is lecturer in philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry.

James Williams is a leading Lyotard scholar. He is senior lecturer and head of philosophy at the University of Dundee and is the author of Understanding Poststructuralism and The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influence.

Very Good copy.

File under: Antonin Artaud Hans Bellmer John Cage Daniel Buren Paul Cézanne Marcel Duchamp Pierre Klossowski Albrecht Dürer Jean-François Lyotard Georges Bataille Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Felix Guattari Gilles Deleuze Immanuel Kant G. W. F. Hegel Pierre Klossowski Karl Marx Sigmund Freud Friedrich Nietzsche Plato Ludwig Wittgenstein Theodor W. Adorno Denis Diderot Columbia University Press / New York Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art

F.R. DAVID Autumn 2020 "Correctional Facility"

2020, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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Edited by Will Holder, the constellation of material in this issue collectively philosophises on topics that deal with difference and the transformative processes between things. It essentially puts forth the notion of the intellectual as a transitional identity. Contributions from various contemporary, historical, and even ancient authors and sources include George Orwell, Simone Weil, Apuleius, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alan Stanbridge, John Cage, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Carson, Barbara Guest, Jenn Ashworth, Lewis Hyde, and many others. The volume begins with an introduction by Charles Bernstein and concludes with an afterword by Robert Duncan.

File under: Ian Hamilton Finlay John Cage Bernadette Mayer George Orwell Simone Weil Apuleius Ian Hamilton Finlay Alan Stanbridge John Cage Bernadette Mayer Anne Carson Barbara Guest Jenn Ashworth Lewis Hyde Charles Bernstein Robert Duncan Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Art SALE

F.R. David Spring 2022 "Take, Eat"

2022, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam

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This 21st issue of ‘F.R. David’ is edited by Will Holder with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Seemingly more fragmented than usual, it includes contributions, quotes, found materials, and excerpts from Maggie Nelson, Charles Mingus, Octavia Butler, John Keats, Alice Notley, Paul Abbott, Bernadette Mayer, Fred Dewey, John Cage, Marion Keiner, Anne Carson, and others. An afterword by Nicolas Schoffer entitled “Microtime” concludes this wandering, inscrutable journey.

File under: Nicolas Schoffer John Cage Will Holder Charles Mingus Maggie Nelson Charles Mingus Octavia Butler John Keats Alice Notley Paul Abbott Bernadette Mayer Fred Dewey John Cage Marion Keiner Anne Carson Will Holder Andrea di Serego Alighieri Uh Books / Amsterdam Periodicals Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art SALE

ECM CATALOG
Edited by Kenny Inaoka

2010, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. dust jacket and dust jacket), 938 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by Tokyo Kirara / Tokyo Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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This absolutely remarkable ECM handbook of over 900 pages, edited by Kenny Inaoka, ECM’s label manager in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, originally conceived to accompany ECM’s 40th year celebrations, begins with a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of all of the officially released albums issued on ECM - and its subsidiary JAPO - from 1969 until 2010. Album covers are shown in colour (sometimes with alternate designs), and there is a section of Japan-only releases alongside the full international range of titles. This is followed by an individual album guide, complete with artwork, discographical information and capsule reviews for each release. All discographical information is in English, including titles, musicians, recording locations etc., making the book an extremely useful reference work for the non-Japanese reader/listener, and for collectors in general. A monumental, exhaustive document dedicated to one of the world's most innovative record labels!

The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1500 albums spanning many idioms. Emphasising improvisation from the outset, ECM established its reputation with standard-setting recordings by Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and many more and began to include contemporary composition – including Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Meredith Monk Dolmen Music – in its programme in the late 1970s and early 80s. To introduce Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa a sister label, ECM New Series, was launched in 1984. The New Series has since become a broad platform for a spectrum of composed music from the pre-baroque era to the present day. New music, improvised or notated, builds upon the strengths of earlier models, and the concept of modern music informed by older music resonates through the improvised and composed projects heard on ECM.

File under: Steve Reich Meredith Monk Jan Garbarek Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Eberhard Weber Gary Burton Chick Corea Wolfgang Dauner Carla Bley Keith Jarrett Paul Bley Pat Metheny John McLaughlin Evan Parker Annette Peacock Gary Peacock Terje Rypdal Ralph Towner the Art Ensemble of Chicago Arvo Pärt György Kurtág Valentin Silvestrov Tigran Mansurian Erkki-Sven Tüür Heinz Holliger Heiner Goebbels Alexander Knaifel Helena Tulve Giya Kancheli John Cage John Casado Charlie Haden John Abercrombie Dave Liebman Egberto Gismonti Dave Holland Steve Tibbetts Stephan Micus Codona Anouar Brahem L. Shankar Jon Hassell Elliott Carter John Adams Kenny Inaoka Tokyo Kirara / Tokyo Kawade Shobo Shinsha / Tokyo Sound / Music

Broken Music

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

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Club Monthly 10
January 1973

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Club Monthly / Japan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce January 1973 issue of Japan's monthly periodical of art criticism, featuring a cover by Japanese avant garde artist Natsuyuki Nakanishi depicting one of his “Compact Objects”. This issue also features a coloured artwork section by Tadanori Yokoo, and contributions by/about director Michio Okabe, composer John Cage, director Sergei Eisenstein, Tenjō Sajiki / Shūji Terayama, critic Yoshida Yoshie, composer Yūji Takahashi, composer Tōru Takemitsu, art critic Isamu Kurita, and many more.

Good copy with some cover wear and tanning.

File under: Tenjo Sajiki Tadanori Yokoo Shūji Terayama Shuji Terayama Natsuyuki Nakanishi Michio Okabe John Cage Sergei Eisenstein Yūji Takahashi Tōru Takemitsu Isamu Kurita Yoshida Yoshie Art Club Monthly / Japan Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Conceptual Art Fluxus Surrealism

Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970
by David Toop

2016, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Bloomsbury Academic / London

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In this first instalment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

“Maelstrom indeed ... [This] is an encyclopedic vortex of musicology, memoir and speculative extemporisation on the nature of improvisation and freedom in music ... crammed with detail and fascinating observations ... A captivating reading experience that perfectly embodies its subject in form.” – The Wire

“Any discussion of free improvisation, as an essential (anti?)-discipline of creative music, is an amusing balance between considering an unruly child and a sacred cow. History has come into a wild favor towards a genre that perpetually defies definition and prediction. David Toop, with a critical facility informed by over forty years of activity on and off the bandstand, sets his ruminations in the service of the music. Essaying on free improvisation in the mode of composition can result in didactic chin scratch. Thankfully Toop engages the readers interest with a sentient breath of prose charged by academic insight where poetic space becomes the page. It's only the beginning.” – Thurston Moore

“David Toop has dived into the Maelstrom that is the genesis of improvised music and come up with a string of pearls. There is so much here that will be new to even those of us who thought we knew the subject. A remarkable piece of real scholarship that relies on painstaking research with a refreshing absence of jargon.” – Evan Parker

“Into the Maelstrom gives an astonishing, vivid history of improvised music across the 20th century before 1970, tracing its transnational criss-crossings, trans-arts contagions, the folds between Cream and AMM, 'musicking' and John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Nuova Consonanza and For a Few Dollars More. David Toop's panoramic account makes obvious how urgently we have needed this alternative history, attuned to musical sounds as they resonate with artistic, cultural and political currents. A landmark book, Into the Maelstrom re-centres those vast and auspicious margins deserted by previous music histories.” – Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

File under: Percy Grainger Group Ongaku Nuova Consonanza MEV AMM Spontaneous Music Ensemble Roscoe Mitchell Peter Brötzmann Han Bennink Misha Mengelberg Sidney Bechet Ornette Coleman Luciano Berio John Cage Edgard Varèse Pink Floyd Pauline Oliveros David Toop Bloomsbury Academic / London Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Pataphysics
System Access

2009, English
Softcover, 70 pages, 20.8 x 29.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Pataphysics Books / Melbourne

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Out of print 2009 issue of the great Pataphysics magazine from Melbourne, the System Access issue.

Contributors and interviews include: Sylvère Lotringer, Hakim Bey, Valery Larbaud, William S. Lyon, John Geiger, William S. Burroughs, David Pinder, Bernard Heidsieck, Brian Aldiss, Jim Dolot, Dennis McKenna, Chris Kraus, Harry Mathews, Terry Winters, John Cage, Judith Elliston, Chris North, and more.

Published and edited by Leo Edelstein and Judith Elliston, 2009, and long out of print. Fine copy.

File under: John Cage Terry Winters Sylvère Lotringer Hakim Bey William S. Lyon David Pinder Bernard Heidsieck Brian Aldiss Jim Dolot Dennis McKenna Chris Kraus Harry Mathews Terry Winters John Cage Judith Elliston Chris North John Geiger William S. Burroughs Valery Larbaud Pataphysics Books / Melbourne Art Periodicals Australian Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare

Explosion! : Painting as Action

2012, English / Swedish
Softcover, 224 pages, 28 x 21.7cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$68.00 - Out of stock

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In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was deemed as important as the painting that resulted from it, creating an energetic interzone between painting and performance in which chance procedures, the movement of bodies and the participation of spectators were all recruited as tools.

Explosion! Painting as Action explores the connections and cross fertilizations between painting, performance and conceptual art from the late 1940s to the present. Examining painting, photography, video, performance, dance and sound art, this volume includes works by Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Gutai Group, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Shozo Shimamoto, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

File under: Adel Abdessemed Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bruce Nauman Cai Guo-Qiang Ceal Floyer Francis Alÿs George Brecht Jackson Pollock Jean Tinguely John Baldessari John Cage Jutta Koether Lawrence Weiner Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul McCarthy Robert Rauschenberg Tony Conrad Yoko Ono Yves Klein Rivane Neuenschwander Carolee Schneemann Shozo Shimamoto Gutai Atsuko Tanaka Simone Forti Ann-Sofi Noring Daniel Birnbaum Julia Robinson Ming Tiampo Walther König / Köln Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections

John Cage: A Mycological Foray

2020, English
Hardcover box (2 vols), 224 pages, 27.9 x 20.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Atelier Editions / Los Angeles

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Sealed copy of this incredible, now out-of-print book, foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life.

Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage’s mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage are interwoven throughout the first volume within a central essay examining Cage’s enduring relationship with mycology. Also included is a transcript of Cage’s 1983 performance, MUSHROOMS et Variationes. The second volume is the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroom Book, authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith. Readers are thus drawn through the landscape of Cage’s mycologically centred oeuvre and interests, discovering assorted works, images, compositions, philosophies and ephemera, as one might encounter assorted fungi and flora while foraging.

File under: John Cage Atelier Editions / Los Angeles Ecology Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

John Cage
Silence: Lectures and Writings (50th Anniversary Edition)

2011, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 312 pages, 18.7 x 22 cm
Published by Wesleyan University Press / US

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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."

John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide

File under: John Cage Wesleyan University Press / US Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Fluxus Art

Hatred of Capitalism (A Semiotext(e) Reader)
Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer (Eds.)

2002, English
Softcover, 430 pages, 15.2 x 23 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)’s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)’s three-decade history mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvere Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding French theory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.

Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her “one of the most subversive voices in American fiction.” Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability and dazzling speed.

Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja, California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007).

File under: John Cage Assata Shakur Bob Flanagan Chris Kraus Cookie Mueller Eileen Myles Fanny Howe Gilles Deleuze Jean Baudrillard John Cage Kate Millet Michel Foucault Michelle Tea Paul Virilio Sylvère Lotringer Ulrike Meinhof William S. Burroughs Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Feminism Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

Fantastic Architecture

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

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

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

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

Black Mountain Poems
Edited by Jonathan C. Creasy

2019, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 13.2 x 20.3 cm
Published by New Directions / New York

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An essential selection of the poetry of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements.

Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and manual labor within a democratic, nonhierarchical structure, Black Mountain was a crucible of revolutionary literature. Although this artistic haven only existed from 1933 to 1956, Black Mountain helped inspire some of the most radical and significant midcentury American poets.

This anthology begins with the well-known Black Mountain Poets— Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov—but also includes the artist Josef Albers and the musician John Cage, as well as the often overlooked women associated with the college, M. C. Richards and Hilda Morley.

File under: Josef Albers John Cage Charles Olson Robert Creeley Robert Duncan Denise Levertov Josef Albers John Cage M. C. Richards Hilda Morley. New Directions / New York Fiction / Poetry Art Painting Sound / Music

Merce Cunningham
Changes: Notes on Choreography

2019, English
Softcover, 188 pages, 15 cm x 24 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York Merce Cunningham Trust / New York

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On the occasion of Merce Cunningham’s centennial comes this new edition of his classic and long-out-of-print artist’s book Changes: Notes on Choreography, first published in 1968 by Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press.

The book presents a revealing exposition of Cunningham’s compositional process by way of his working notebooks, containing in-progress notations of individual dances with extensive speculations about the choreographic and artistic problems he was facing. Illustrated with over 170 photographs and printed in colour and black and white, the book was described by its original publisher as “the most comprehensive book on choreography to emerge from the new dance … [which] will come to stand with Eisenstein’s and Stanislavsky’s classics on the artistic process".

By the time these notebooks were published, Cunningham had already led the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for 15 years, and had collaborated with Cage and others on milestones such as Variations V (1966) and RainForest (1968), the latter with Andy Warhol, David Tudor and Jasper Johns.

Along with his essay collection Dancing in Space and Time (1978), Changes is one of the most significant publications on Cunningham’s enduring contributions to dance, which developed through collaboration with John Cage to incorporate formal innovation with regard to chance, silence and stillness.

Book design by Dick Higgins.

File under: Merce Cunningham John Cage Dick Higgins The Song Cave / New York Merce Cunningham Trust / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sound / Music

Art-Events and Happenings
Udo Kultermann (Ed.)

1971, English
Softcover, 210 pages, 23 x 25 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mathews Miller Dunbar / London

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First English edition from 1971, Udo Kultermann's "Art-Events and Happenings", published by Mathews Miller Dunbar of London, translated by John William Gabriel. A deep reflection on an important part of Art's development throughout the 1960s - the turn to action through performance and conceptual art - surveying happenings, protests, theatre, ritual, land art and much more, and featuring a vast collection of black and white photographic illustrations of the work of Allan Kaprow, Ann Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Otto Mühl, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Piero Gilardi, Charlotte Moorman, Franz Erhard Walther, Joseph Beuys, Tetsumi Kudo, Lygia Clark, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, John Cage, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Andy Warhol, Jan Dibbets, Carl Andre, Barry La Va, Rafael Ferrer, Marinus Boezum, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knizak, Jackson Pollock, Saburo Murakami, Atsuko Tanaka, Claes Oldenburg, Piero Manzoni, Peter Hutchinson, Christo, Robert Morris, and many more.

Very good copy (some tanning, previous owners name to first page)

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Atsuko Tanaka Barry La Va Carl Andre Carolee Schneemann Charlotte Moorman Christo Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Franz Erhard Walther Hermann Nitsch Jackson Pollock Jan Dibbets Jean-Jacques Lebel John Cage Joseph Beuys Lygia Clark Marinus Boezem Merce Cunningham Milan Knizak Nam June Paik Otto Muehl Peter Hutchinson Piero Gilardi Piero Manzoni Rafael Ferrer Robert Morris Saburo Murakami Stan Brakhage Tetsumi Kudo Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Günter Brus Öyvind Fahlström Anna Halprin Udo Kultermann Mathews Miller Dunbar / London Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Pataphysics "Tile issue" 1993

1993, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Pataphysics Books / Melbourne

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Out of print 1993 issue of the great Pataphysics magazine from Melbourne.

Question: It has been suggested that autobiography, as with letters, establishes the moments of arrival as being critical. What are you currently working on?

Responses from John Cage, Sylvčre Lotringer, Brigitte Engler, Gerald Murnane, Achille Bonito Oliva, Carl Andre, Bernard Heidsieck, Tory Dent, Gregory Botts, Laurance Wiedler, Alex Katz, Harry Zohn, Chris Kraus, Paul Violi, Laura Mullen, John Giorno, Juan Davila, Larry Clark (B&W photographs), Bob Black, Judith Elliston, Sarah Morris, Richard Kostelanetz, John Nixon, Leon Golub, Pete Spence, Javant Biarujia, Daniel Shapiro, Ania Walwicz, Stephen Bram, Charles North, Graeme Hare, David Shapiro, Brian Aldiss.

Published by Leo Edelstein and Yanni Florence in Melbourne, 1993, and long out of print. Fine copies.

File under: Yanni Florence John Cage John Nixon Carl Andre Stephen Bram Juan Davila Alex Katz Larry Clark Sarah Morris Sylvère Lotringer Gerald Murnane Achille Bonito Oliva Chris Kraus Paul Violi Brian Aldiss Pataphysics Books / Melbourne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Photography Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Australian Art Art Eros Painting