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THE BOOKS AND LIFE OF RAYMOND ROUSSEL

2023, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 307 pages, 20 x 27.5 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

The Books and Life of Raymond Roussel is a biographic and bibliographic study of the French author Raymond Roussel (1877–1933). It was researched and written by the art historian Michael Sanchez. The book takes the form of an inventory of every known state of every edition of Roussel’s lifetime publications. Interwoven into this bibliographic data are texts that analyze the relationship between Roussel’s literary procedures, the material construction of his books, and his life. The book also includes a list of primary and secondary literature related to Roussel.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Raymond Roussel Michael Sanchez Galerie Buchholz / Köln Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Art Surrealism

Man Ray
[1890-1976]

1990, Japanese / French / English
2 volumes in cardboard slipcase (w. adhered Man Ray "stamp"); volume 1 68 pages (colour ill.) volume 2 196 pages (b/w ill.), 22.5 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sezon Museum of Art / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful, visually exhaustive two-volume boxset catalogue for the traveling exhibition held on the centenary of Man Ray's birth in Japan in 1990-1991.

Each volume of this Japanese publication on the American artist Man Ray serves as a wonderful index of his incredible lifetime of work. Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man Ray was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. A major contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media including drawings, objects and films, but considered himself a painter above all. Volume One compiles many examples of his diverse non-photographic works, reproducing his many paintings, drawings, objects, prints and book editions in full colour. Volume Two (the heavier of the two volumes) focuses on his prolific photographic work, copiously illustrated with a huge catalogue of beautifully reproduced monochromatic works throughout his entire career -- Paris, America, Dada, Surrealism and beyond -- showcasing his significant contribution to the evaluation of photography as a form of modern art.

Accompanying texts by Merry Foresta, Lucien Treillard, Toshiharu Ito in Japanese, French and English. Primarily in Japanese language. Includes full biography, bibliography and catalogue of all works.

Good-Very Good copy. Tanning to slipcase, light wear to cover otherwise Very Good in general.

File under: Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Sezon Museum of Art / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Surrealism Dada Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Visual Message 1 & 2

1978 / 1979, Japanese
Softcover, 127 pages + 144 pages, 22.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Visual Message / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First (1978) and second (1979) issues of Visual Message, the "comprehensive magazine of the visual age", published in Japan for a short period at the end of the 1970s. This explosive inaugural issue, co-edited by graphic designers Ikko Tanaka and Kazuya Uegami, and copywriter Shinya Nishimura and themed "Visual Scandal" is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Saito, Harumi Yamaguchi, Masamichi Oikawa, Eiko Ishioka, Shigeo Fukuda, Tomi Ungerer, Masayuki Kurokawa, SITE, Tsunehisa Kimura, Tenmei Kano, Raymond Savignac, Katsumi Asaba, Ken Mori, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Folon, Asai Shinpei, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Herb Lubalin, Osamu Nagahama, M.C. Escher, Shiro Tatsumi, Hiroki Hayashi, Masayoshi Nakajo, Hiroshi Yoda, Hipgnosis, and many more.

Second 1979 issue of Visual Message is structured around the themes "Before/After" and "Scale" and again is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Philip Johnson, Hideo Yamashita, Seiji Takada, Takahisa Kamijō, Haruo Takino, Takenobu Igarashi, Akira Yokoyama, Hisaki Hiramatsu, Takamichi Ito, Tomoya Nakano, Shōji Yamagishi, and many more.

V.M. 1. Good copy. Some cover/spine wear/creases/small closed tear to edge.
V.M. 2. Very Good copy. Light general wear.

File under: Ikko Tanaka Raymond Savignac Harumi Yamaguchi Andy Warhol Marcel Duchamp Rene Magritte Tadanori Yokoo SITE Tsunehisa Kimura Shigeo Fukuda Tomi Ungerer Jean-Michel Folon Eiko Ishioka Katsu Yoshida Tenmei Kano Asai Shinpei Masao Saito Katsumi Asaba Ken Mori Herb Lubalin M.C. Escher Masayuki Kurokawa Masamichi Oikawa Hipgnosis Shiro Tatsumi Hiroki Hayashi Masayoshi Nakajo Hiroshi Yoda Osamu Nagahama Visual Message / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Architecture / Interior Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Fashion Graphic Design / Typography Japanese Photography

Emmett Williams
Sweethearts

2010, English / German
Softcover, 226 pages, 12 x 16 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$45.00 - Out of stock

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A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, first published by Something Else Press (where Williams was editor in chief) in 1968, and back in print for the first time, still sporting its classic cover by Marcel Duchamp.

Sweethearts is an anagrammatic erotic encounter between a "he" and a "she," whose entire vocabulary is derived from the word "sweethearts." The letters maintain the same spacing in every word on each page, lending the volume a flipbook dimension that Williams enhances by organizing the text to read backwards, so that the reader can flip the book with her or his left hand (thus the front cover is on the back, and vice versa). Richard Hamilton described Sweethearts as being "to concrete poetry as Wuthering Heights is to the English novel... compelling in its emotional scope, readable, a sweetly heartfelt, jokey, crying, laughing, tender expression of love."

File under: Emmett Williams Marcel Duchamp Walther König / Köln Fluxus Fiction / Poetry

FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART
By Amos Vogel

1974, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Random House / New York

$80.00 - Out of stock

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The first edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art, one of the greatest books on cinema, published in 1974. Reprinted in 2005 by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, that edition also quickly went out of print and this landmark book has not been available since. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago for this classic volume are still relevant today. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

File under: Luis Buñuel Dušan Makavejev Stan Brakhage Roman Polanski Vera Chytilova Alfred Hitchcock Carolee Schneemann Peter Watkins Tony Conrad Jonas Mekas Andrei Tarkovsky Marcel Duchamp Robert Bresson Luchino Visconti Chris Marker Federico Fellini Rainer Werner Fassbinder Kate Millett Shuji Terayama William Klein Russ Meyers Louis Malle Woody Allen Yoko Ono Michelangelo Antonioni Agnes Varda Andy Warhol Ingmar Bergman Jacques Rivette Lindsay Anderson Roberto Rossellini Marguerite Duras Charlie Chaplin Paul Morrissey Joseph Losey Otto Muehl Hans Richter Fritz Lang Jean Genet Kenneth Anger Maya Deren Jean-Luc Godard Frans Zwartjes Arrabal Jack Smith Stan Vanderbeek Werner Herzog Morgan Fisher Jean Renior Michael Snow Robert Frank Jan Svankmajer Sam Peckinpah Paul Sharits Akira Kurosawa Orson Welles Frederick Wiseman Ken Jacobs Martin Scorcese Jean Cocteau Manuel Octavio Gomez Stanley Kubrick Norman McLaren Walérian Borowczyk John Cassavetes Bruce Conner Sergei Eisenstein Amos Vogel Random House / New York Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Art Surrealism Dada Eros Performance / Dance / Theater

Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and photography in dialogue
Von 1840 bis Heute / From 1840 to The Present

1979, German
Softcover, 419 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern

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Wonderful over-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and Photography in Dialogue, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 13 to July 24, 1977. Profusely illustrated, this heavy volume documents this historical survey of the relationship between photography and painting from 1840 to the present (late 1970s); with a full catalogue of works, artists' biographies, bibliography. Edited by Erika Billeter with texts throughout by art historian Josef A. Schmoll. Includes the work of Edvard Munch, Urs Lüthi, Wols, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Eadweard Muybridge, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Oskar Schlemmer, Francis Bacon, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Les Levine, Constant Puyo, Clarence Hudson White, Jan Groover, Jochen Gerz, Duane Michels, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Ruth Francken, Theo Von Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, Ferdinand Hodler, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alighiero Boetti, Klaus Rinke, Giuseppe Penone, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Gerhard Richter, Monika Baumgartl, Yves Klein, Wolf Vostell, Heinrich Kühn, Georges Mathieu, Peter Roehr, Sarkis, Jiro Takamatsu, Michael Heizer, Umberto Boccioni, Hans Bellmer, William Wegman, Raoul Ubac, Margrit Jäggli, André Kertész, Jiri Kolar, Kasimir Malevich, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dennis Oppenheim, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, Jan Dibbets, Jürgen Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Jean Tinguely, Vettor Pisani, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Allen Kaprow, Arnulf Rainer, Mieczyslaw Berman, Jim Dine, George Brecht, Man Ray, Paul Wunderlich, Karin Székessy, Tom Wesselmann, Chuck Close, Eugène Delacroix, Duane Hanson, Heinrich Zille, Félix Vallotton, Carl Durheim, Gilbert and George, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Eakins, Robert Rauschenberg, Édouard Vuillard, Carlo Carrà, Alphonse Mucha, Les Krims, Albert Steiner, Giorgio de Chirico, Keiji Uematsu, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Zille, Franco Fontana, Richard Long, Ben Shahn, Edmund Kesting, László Moholy-Nagy, Anton Stankowski, Paul Nash, Rene Magritte, Paul T. Frankl, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Georges Hugnet, Gordon Matta-Clark....

Very Good copy, crease to top cover corner.

File under: Edvard Munch Urs Lüthi Wols Vito Acconci Eadweard Muybridge Hannah Höch Raoul Hausmann Hans-Peter Feldmann Oskar Schlemmer Francis Bacon Hilla and Bernd Becher Les Levine Constant Puyo Clarence Hudson White Jan Groover Jochen Gerz Duane Michels Mario Merz Giulio Paolini Ruth Francken Theo Von Doesburg Kurt Schwitters Ferdinand Hodler Herbert Bayer Marcel Duchamp Gertrude Käsebier Edward Steichen Alighiero Boetti Klaus Rinke Giuseppe Penone Pierre Bonnard Paul Klee Gerhard Richter Monika Baumgartl Yves Klein Wolf Vostell Heinrich Kühn Georges Mathieu Peter Roehr Sarkis Jiro Takamatsu Michael Heizer Umberto Boccioni Hans Bellmer William Wegman Raoul Ubac Margrit Jäggli André Kertész Jiri Kolar Kasimir Malevich Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dennis Oppenheim Christian Boltanski Dan Graham Jan Dibbets Jürgen Klauke Bruce Nauman Jean Tinguely Vettor Pisani Max Ernst Joseph Cornell Allen Kaprow Arnulf Rainer Mieczyslaw Berman Jim Dine George Brecht Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Karin Székessy Eugène Delacroix Félix Vallotton Tom Wesselmann Chuck Close Duane Hanson Joseph Beuys Thomas Eakins Robert Rauschenberg Édouard Vuillard Carlo Carrà Alphonse Mucha Les Krims Albert Steiner Giorgio de Chirico Keiji Uematsu Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Heinrich Zille Franco Fontana Richard Long Ben Shahn Edmund Kesting László Moholy-Nagy Anton Stankowski Paul Nash Rene Magritte Paul T. Frankl John Heartfield El Lissitzky Georges Hugnet Gordon Matta-Clark John Baldessari Erika Billeter Josef A. Schmoll. Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern Photography Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Dada Conceptual Art

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 Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss

1986, English
Softcover, 319 pages, 175 x 229 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$69.00 - Out of stock

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor at Columbia University and an editor and cofounder of October magazine, is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious (1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), and Bachelors (1999), all published by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User's Guide (Zone Books, 1997).

"All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative."—Art Documentation

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

File under: Jackson Pollock Richard Serra Sol Lewitt Agnes Martin Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Man Ray Robert Ryman Caspar David Friedrich Eugene Atget Auguste Rodin Gordon Matta-Clark Alberto Giacometti Max Ernst Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Minimal Art Conceptual Art Dada Surrealism

The Return of The Real
by Hal Foster

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 18 x 22.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-garde, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

Includes the work of David Hammons, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, Silvia Kolbowski, Larry Bell, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Allan McCollum, Gerhard Richter, Richard Estes, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, John Miller, Zoe Leonard, Gran Fury, Renée Green, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Lothar Baumgarten, Fred Wilson, Jimmie Durham, and many more.

File under: David Hammons Robert Gober Mike Kelley Marcel Duchamp Alexander Rodchenko Vladimir Tatlin Dan Flavin Carl Andre Jasper Johns Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Michael Asher Hans Haacke Fred Wilson Silvia Kolbowski Larry Bell Sol Lewitt Richard Serra Eva Hesse Donald Judd Tony Smith Robert Morris Robert Smithson Jeff Koons Haim Steinbach Peter Halley Ashley Bickerton Ross Bleckner Barbara Kruger Sherrie Levine Vito Acconci Bruce Nauman Gordon Matta-Clark Frank Stella Robert Rauschenberg Andy Warhol Allan McCollum Gerhard Richter Richard Estes Richard Prince Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith John Miller Zoe Leonard Gran Fury Renée Green Dan Graham Martha Rosler Allan Sekula Mary Kelly Lothar Baumgarten Jimmie Durham Hal Foster The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Dada

DADA
By Kenneth Coutts-Smith

1970, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 18.5 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York

$30.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the Dada volume of Studio Vista / Dutton's great paperback series. Published in 1970 and written by Kenneth Coutts-Smith, this heavily illustrated overview spans Dada's activities via central locations and protagonists such as Picabia, Janco, Duchamp, Schwitters, Ernst, Grosz, Man Ray, Arp, etc.
Chapters : "Zürich - the beginning", "Anti-art and the irrational", "The roots of Dada", "New York - Duchamp and philosophical irony", "Berlin - political commitment", "Cologne - Ernst and the hallucinatory vision", "Hanover - Schwitters, freedom through lyricism", "Paris - last fling and obsequies", "Dada is dead-long live Dada", "Book list", "Index".

File under: Francis Picabia Al Hansen Robert Rauschenberg Gino Severini Kurt Schwitters Theo van Doesburg Max Ernst Johannes Theodor Baargeld George Grosz Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Man Ray Henri Chopin Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Ed Herring Richard Huelsenbeck Augusto Giacometti Guillaume Apollinaire Tristan Tzara Kenneth Coutts-Smith Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Painting Drawing

Duchamp's Last Day
By Donald Shambroom

2018, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 10.8 x 17.8 cm
Published by David Zwirner Books / New York

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Published on the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s death, Duchamp’s Last Day offers a radical reading of the artist’s final hours.

Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend Man Ray took a photograph of him. His face is wan; his eyes are closed; he appears calm. Taking this image as a point of departure, Donald Shambroom begins to examine the surrounding context—the dinner with Man Ray and another friend, Robert Lebel, the night Duchamp died, the conversations about his own death at that dinner and elsewhere, and the larger question of whether this radical artist’s death can be read as an extension of his work.

Shambroom’s in-depth research into this final night, and his analysis of the photograph, feeds into larger questions about the very nature of artworks and authorship which Duchamp raised in his lifetime. In the case of this mysterious and once long-lost photograph, who is the author? Man Ray or Duchamp? Is it an artwork or merely a record? Has the artist himself turned into one of his own readymades?

A fascinating essay that is both intimate and steeped in art history, Duchamp’s Last Day is filled with intricate details from decades of research into this peculiar encounter between art, life, and death. Shambroom’s book is a wonderful study of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Donald Shambroom David Zwirner Books / New York Art Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism

Endgame : Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture
Yve-Alain Bois, Thomas Crow, Hal Foster, David Joselit, Elisabeth Sussman, Bob Riley

1986, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of this long out-of-print seminal catalogue published by MIT Press on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the ICA Boston in 1986, curated by Yve-Alain Bois and Elisabeth Sussman.

The six illustrated essays by some of today's most noted art historians and critics which comprise Endgame provide the first comprehensive discussion of reference in contemporary art and the commodification of the art object. The interrrelated concerns of painters Sherry Levine, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Philip Taaffe — who ironically adapt the visual strategies of earlier modern artists—and those of sculptors Jon Kessler, General Idea, Jeff Koons, Joel Otterson, and Haim Steinbach—who use consumer objects and their mode of representation as the raw material of their sculpture—are the sources of the authors' varied and acute arguments on this theme of the political and social economy of the image.

Contents: The return of Hank Herron / by Thomas Crow; Painting, the task of mourning / by Yve-Alain Bois; The last picture show / by Elisabeth Sussman; Modern leisure / by David Joselit; The future of an illusion, or, The contemporary artist as cargo cultist / by Hal Foster; Notes on new media theater / by Bob Riley. Includes an exhibition checklist. Preface by David A. Ross

Good copy, with some tanning to cover, light wear/marking.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Meret Oppenheim Richard Baim Gretchen Bendes Perry Hoberman General Idea Jon Kessler Jeff Koons Joel Otterson Haim Steinbach Sherry Levine Ross Bleckner Peter Halley Philip Taaffe Andy Warhol Piet Mondrian Robert Ryman Victor Burgin Mary Kelly Bridget Riley Frank Stella Donald Judd Yve-Alain Bois Thomas Crow Hal Foster David Joselit Elisabeth Sussman Bob Riley David A. Ross The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Art Pop Art

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

Dawn Ades : Writings on Art and Anti-Art

2015, English
Softcover (french-folds), 608 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Ridinghouse / London

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Art historian and curator Dawn Ades is a leading voice on Dada, Surrealism, abstraction and art from Latin America. Ades addresses themes fundamental to the history of modern art and the avant-garde, across time periods and art movements, from Europe to the Americas. She offers alternative readings and investigates the particular dynamics that affect the ways images and objects are produced, presented and received.

With topics ranging from close-up photography to the female subject in Mexico, and from automatism to photomontage, as well as monographic essays on artists such as Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp and Hannah Hoch, this collection explores major figures of the twentieth century as well as art beyond the canon. The selected writings are divided into sections that correspond to the overarching concerns of gender, identity, the impact of new mediums and the enduring significance of the materials of art.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Brassaï Josef Albers Francis Bacon Karl Blossfeldt Claude Cahun Salvador Dali Richard Deacon Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Naum Gabo Georg Grosz John Heartfield Hannah Hoch Frida Kahlo Wilfredo Lam El Lissitzky Fernand Léger René Magritte Kasimir Malevich Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Joan Miro Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Henry Moore Eduardo Paolozzi Man Ray Diego Rivera Melanie Smith John Stezaker Salvador Dalí Dawn Ades Georges Bataille Andre Breton Doro Globus Ridinghouse / London Dada Surrealism Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Bauhaus Photography

Marcel Duchamp
By Robert Lebel

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket in hard cloth-covered slipcase w. softcover supplement), 252 pages, 34 x 25 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

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Duchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonné-cum-artist's book now back in print in a facsimile English edition. ‘Marcel Duchamp’ became the go-to book on the artist for many decades following its publication in late 1959, when exclusive grand-deluxe and deluxe editions in French, along with trade editions in French and English, were simultaneously released. While Trianon Press’s French trade edition was reprinted numerous times, the Grove Press English edition languished out of print for the better part of two generations—until now, with Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ fully authorized facsimile re-edition.

By Robert Lebel. Edited by Jean-Jacques Lebel and Association Marcel Duchamp. Foreword by Harald Falckenberg. Introduction by Michaela Unterdörfer. Text by Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Henri-Pierre Roché, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Man Ray, Michael Taylor.

Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary monograph and draft catalogue raisonné, was written by art historian and novelist Robert Lebel and published in French in 1959; later that same year, it was translated into English by George Heard Hamilton for Grove Press. The book was a cooperation between Lebel and Duchamp, and beyond Lebel’s extensive writing and bibliography, additional chapters were authored by Duchamp, H.P. Roché and André Breton. The coupling of these texts with diverse archival photographs and an illustrated compendium of Duchamp’s artworks delivered a complex and personal rendering of the artist’s life and inner circle. For the first time since its release more than 60 years ago, this landmark publication is back in circulation with Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ meticulous facsimile of the English edition, reflecting everything from its hand-tipped images to its recto-verso dust jacket appearing as close to the original as possible.

Fully authorized by artist Jean-Jacques Lebel—Robert Lebel’s son—and the Association Marcel Duchamp, the facsimile is accompanied by a supplement volume of essays and archival material that tells the story of Duchamp and Lebel’s close collaboration, and, as contributor Michael Taylor writes, how the original publication signified a "sea change in the artist’s receptivity to critical interpretation." The supplement includes texts by both Robert and Jean-Jacques Lebel and a newly discovered note by Man Ray, among a bevy of photographs from the Lebel and Duchamp archives, extending the story presented in the 1959 edition.

Robert Lebel’s analysis of Duchamp’s oeuvre remains fresh to this day, as does the book’s design, which was personally supervised by the artist. Hauser & Wirth Publishers reanimated Marcel Duchamp with the curatorial-design firm fluid, who recast the original typefaces as digital fonts, positioning each letter and image exactly as it was in the original. To achieve a near-exact facsimile, fluid consulted with paper conservators and printers to recreate the book with modern materials that match those available in 1959. This precise production quality assures that today’s readers will experience this historic book as Marcel Duchamp and Robert Lebel intended.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Robert Lebel Jean-Jacques Lebel Harald Falckenberg Michaela Unterdörfer Marcel Duchamp André Breton Henri-Pierre Roché Man Ray Michael Taylor Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Surrealism Dada Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Art Photography

The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
by Marcel Duchamp; Edited by Elmer Peterson and Michel Sanouillet

1989, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
Published by Da Capo Press / New York

$40.00 - Out of stock

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In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the more joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern art. This collection beings together two essential interviews and two statements about his art that underscore the serious side of Duchamp. But most of the book is made up of his experimental writings, which he called "Texticles," the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Eben (also known as The Large Glass ), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Selavy ("Eros, c'est la vie" or arouser la vie", drink it up" celebrate life"). Wacky, perverse, deliberately frustrating, these entertaining notes are basic for understanding one of the twentieth century's most provocative artists, a figure whose influence on the contemporary scene has never been stronger.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Da Capo Press / New York Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Dada Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Conceptual Art

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

Na de beeldenstorm
by Carel Blotkamp

1970, Dutch
Hardcover, unpaginated, 27.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1970 by Dutch art historian and critic Carel Blotkamp (b. 1945), Na de beeldenstorm: drie opstellen over recente beeldende kunst (3 essays on recent visual art) surveys developments in art at the height of one of the most innovative periods in art history, the 1960s. Blotkamp traces the influence of historical avant gardes (Mondrian, Kandinsky, Malevich, Duchamp...) into new abstraction, hard-edge, Color Field, Minimalism, Pop, Op Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Povera, Land Art, et al. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with fine examples of work by Barnett Newman, Josef Albers, Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg, Daan Van Golden, Richard Serra, Kenneth Nolan, Morris Louis, Jo Baer, Frank Stella, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Walter de Maria, Yves Klein, Robert Morris, Bridget Riley, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Weiner, Jan Dibbets, Armando, Panamarenko, Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons, Barry Flanagan, JCJ Vanderheyden, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Martial Raysse, Richard Long, Wim T. Schippers, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Mario Merz, Carl Andre, Pieter Engels, Andy Warhol, Edward Rushca, Jesús Rafael Soto, Peter Struycken, and many more...

Very Good copy without dust jacket (as issued), light tanning/wear to glossy, foiled boards.

File under: Barnett Newman Josef Albers Lucio Fontana Robert Rauschenberg Daan Van Golden Richard Serra Kenneth Nolan Morris Louis Jo Baer Frank Stella Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Jim Dine Walter de Maria Yves Klein Robert Morris Bridget Riley Jasper Johns Lawrence Weiner Jan Dibbets Armando Panamarenko Joseph Beuys Sol LeWitt Ellsworth Kelly Larry Poons Barry Flanagan JCJ Vanderheyden Robert Indiana Roy Lichtenstein Martial Raysse Richard Long Wim T. Schippers Marcel Duchamp Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Mario Merz Carl Andre Pieter Engels Andy Warhol Edward Rushca Peter Struycken Jesus Rafael Soto Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar Kunstbezit / Netherlands Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare

Night Vision No. 13 (Surrealism)

1984, Japanese
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Night Vision / Japan

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1984 edition of cult Japanese underground magazine Night Vision, a special edition dedicated to Surrealism. Packed with content, including many important Surrealist texts translated to Japanese, this heavily illustrated book includes features on Hans Bellmer and Unica Zürn, Yves Tanguy, Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Belgian Surrealism, female Surrealist artists and poets (Remedios Varo, Mimi Parent, Valentine Penrose, Gisèle Prassinos, Dorothea Tanning, Bona de Mandiargues, Isabelle Walberg, Lise Deharme, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Aube Elléouët, Jane Graverol, Nelly Kaplan (Belen), Joyce Mansour, Nora Mitrani, Unica Zürn, Valentine Hugo, Marianne Van Hirtum, Leonora Fini, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Kay Sage, Toyen, Annie Le Brun, Meret Oppenheim), Latin American Surrealism and Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera, Surrealist literature and activities (Artaud, Picabia, Apollinaire, Bataille, Duchamp, Satie, Breton, etc.) plus much more, text contributions by Georges Bataille, Paul Eluard, Midori Wakakuwa, Kuniharu Akiyama, Takashi Tanyuya, Shigeo Goto, Takahiko Okada, Octavio Paz, André Breton, Kunio Iwaya, Gonzalo Cerorio, Yuichi Konno, Satoshi Takamura, and much more. Illustrated in b/w throughout (with many more artists than mentioned above) in that great Night Vision semi-fanzine/cheap reader quality.

Very Good - Fine copy.

File under: Remedios Varo Dorothea Tanning Leonora Carrington René Magritte Unica Zürn Hans Bellmer Erik Satie Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Francis Picabia Yves Tanguy Man Ray Victor Brauner Joan Miro Andre Masson Claude Cahun Salvador Dali Toyen Meret Oppenheim Bona (Bona de Mandiargues) Mimi Parent Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Isabelle Walberg Dora Maar Jane Graverol Valentine Hugo Kay Sage Aline Gagnaire Aube Elléouët Paul Eluard Octavio Paz Midori Wakakuwa Kuniharu Akiyama Takashi Tanyuya Shigeo Goto Takahiko Okada André Breton Kunio Iwaya Gonzalo Cerorio Yuichi Konno Satoshi Takamura Erik Satie Antonin Artaud Francis Picabia Guillaume Apollinaire Octabio Paz Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Lise Deharme Joyce Mansour Nora Mitrani Marianne Van Hirtum Annie Le Brun Georges Bataille Night Vision / Japan Photography Surrealism Dada Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Painting Fiction / Poetry Art Drawing

Man Ray
Photos

1981, Japanese
Hardcover (in foil-printed cardboard slipcase) 31 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asahi Shimbun / Japan

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Exquisite and scarce Japanese volume on the (mostly) photographic work of Man Ray, published in 1981 by Asahi Shimbun. Issued only in Japan in hardcover form, wrapped in a foil-stamped/printed black cardboard sleeve, this beautifully designed book features 165 stunningly gravure reproduced images honest to the original photographic works of Man Ray, including his abstract work, portraits, photographs of fellow artists, artworks, studios and living spaces (including many collaborations with Marcel Duchamp). Many of these photographs are rarely documented in other Man Ray publications. Text is entirely in Japanese, although there is very little of it as this is primarily a photo book, and one of the most beautiful on the work of Man Ray.

Very Good in Good slipcase with some wear.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Asahi Shimbun / Japan Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Surrealism

Passages in Modern Sculpture
By Rosalind E. Krauss

1981, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 15.5 x 23.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$64.00 - Out of stock

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Rosalind E. Krauss, editor and cofounder of October magazine, is University Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, and Perpetual Inventory, all published by the MIT Press.

"...Krauss's book is undoubtedly the best treatment of its subject yet written. As a textbook, it ought to raise the level of discourse in art history classes, for it is the meaning, not the chronology, of sculpture since Rodin that is the book's central concern. Krauss avoids the conventional plodding survey and divides the book into a sequence of 'case studies' that permit sustained attention to specific works and artists. In so doing, she attempts to trace a 'tradition' to stand behind that portion of American sculpture of the past 15 years which she espouses critically."
—Art in America

"Distinguished art historian and critic Rosalind Krauss analyzes with exceptional clarity and insight the major works that have led 20th century sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the revolutionary conceptual art of the 1970s—an art which has developed a new 'syntax' that discards 'narrative' for instantaneous impact and boldly breaks new ground. Beginning with a penetrating study of Rodin's modernity in rejecting 'narrative' in his 'The Gates of Hell,' she moves successively through detailed examinations of futurism, constructivism, Duchamps' 'readymades,' Brancusi, David Smith's 'Tanktotem,' sculptural realism, and the introduction of light, motion, and theatrical elements into sculpture by Picabia, Calder, Oldenburg, and others right up to younger sculptors like Carl Andre, Blochner, and others [including Robert Morris, Don Judd, Richard Serra, Sol Le Witt, Robert Smithson, and Michael Heizer]. As critic and theorist, Krauss makes demands that will challenge even the most sophisticated."
—Publishers Weekly

"The book is well illustrated in black and white and is, for an art book, of a convenient and manageable size. The text is rigorously formalistic and analytical and organized around specific sculptural considerations such as the treatment of narrative time, the handling of space, and the game strategies of surrealist sculpture. It is an approach that pays off particularly well in the author's discussions of Rodin and David Smith."
—Saturday Review

File under: Carl Andre Constantin Brâncuși David Smith Donald Judd Marcel Duchamp Mel Bochner Michael Heizer Richard Serra Robert Morris Robert Smithson Sol Lewitt Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

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

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

$58.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

On the Eve of the Future : Selected Writings on Film
By Annette Michelson

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 18 x 23 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and sculpture, and in essays that were as engaging as they were influential and as lucid as they were learned, she set out to demonstrate the importance of the underappreciated medium of film. On the Eve of the Future collects more than thirty years’ worth of those essays, focusing on her most relevant engagements with avant-garde production in experimental cinema, particularly with the movement known as American Independent Cinema.

This volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp’s film Anemic Cinema, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell’s filmic practices, and the first major explorations of Michael Snow. It offers an important essay on Maya Deren, whose work was central to that era of renewal and reinvention, seminal critiques of Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, and Harry Smith, and overviews of Independent Cinema. Gathered here for the first time, these texts demonstrate Michelson’s pervasive influence as a writer and thinker and her role in the establishment of cinema studies as an academic field.

The postwar generation of Independents worked to develop radically new terms, techniques, and strategies of production and distribution. Michelson shows that the fresh new forms they created from the legacy of Modernism became the basis of new forms of spectatorship and cinematic pleasure.

About the Author
Annette Michelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. A founding editor of the journal October, she has written on art and cinema for more than five decades.

“Annette Michelson is one of the most brilliant minds that has ever turned its focus on the art of cinema. It's a blessing to have her illuminating, inspiring, and informative pieces available in this volume.”
—Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and writer

“When many of these texts first appeared, they were undergroundbreaking. Now, as history, they continue to be impressive for their subtle insights and nuanced style. Annette Michelson’s writing is as avant-garde and of-the-moment as that of a critic/historian can be.”
—Michael Snow, filmmaker, musician, visual artist

“Written with enviable precision and grace, these essays remain the most compelling chronicle of the radical impact that film would have on the other arts in the twentieth century. Through her writings, Annette Michelson defined a field of critical inquiry where others saw only boundaries.”
—Bruce Jenkins, Chair, Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

File under: Harry Smith Hollis Frampton Joseph Cornell Marcel Duchamp Maya Deren Michael Snow Stan Brakhage Annette Michelson October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Man Ray
Photographies de Man Ray

2002, Japanese
Softcover, 307 pages, 259 x 180 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Shimbun / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this scarce, visually generous Japanese catalogue that takes a deep look into the photographic work of Man Ray. Published on the occasion the exhbition 'Photographies de Man Ray' that opened at the Bunkamura Museum and then traveled to three other museums in Japan in 2002-03. Densely packed with 559 beautifully reproduced photographs, the well known and the seldom seen, catalogued into major subjects, often thematically sequenced. From his prolific, experimental portraiture, nudes, fashion, still-life, landscapes, and work within the Surrealist and Dada movements, this heavy volume provides an exhaustive study of this great photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs," and many other experimental processes he brought into the photographic studio, all featured herein. Includes an illustrated biography, bibliography, catalogue listing and texts in Japanese and French.

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man Ray was a renowned representative of avant-garde photography in the 20th century and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. A major contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media including drawings, objects and films, but considered himself a painter above all. one of the most significant contributors to the Dada and Surrealist movements, and to modern art in general.

Very Good-Fine copy.

File under: Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Tokyo Shimbun / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Photography Surrealism Eros