World Food Books

Le Surréalisme en 1947
Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp

1947, French
Softcover, 142 pages, 24 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Maeght Editeur / Paris

$650.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Very scarce copy of the legendary "Le Surréalisme en 1947 : Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp", published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, in conjunction with an important exhibition of Surrealist artists in 1947. Features the cover design by Marcel Duchamp - a photographic reproduction by Rémy Duval of "Prière de toucher (Please touch)", the famous Duchamp rubber breast edition, created with Italian-born painter Enrico Donati, that adorned the first 999 copies of the catalogue. This gorgeous catalogue features the work of artists from 24 countries including Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Jacqueline Lamba, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Joan Miró, Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Maria Martins, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Arp, Frederick Kiesler, Alberto Giacometti, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Brignoni, Alexander Calder, Bruno Capacci, Elizabeth van Damme, Jacques Halpern, Julio de Diego, Enrico Donati, Francis Bouvet, David Hare, Iaroslav Serpan, Jacqueline Lamba, Taro Okamoto, Roberto Matta, Kay Sage, Toyen, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Leonard Baskin, Jindrich Heisler, Jeanne Reynal, Isabelle Waldberg, Roger Brielle, Jindrich Styrsky, Bruno Capacci, Jean Guerin, Isamu Noguchi, Gerome Kamrowski, Frédéric Delanglade, Eugenio Granell, Francis Picabia, Remedios Varo, Hans Richter, Arshile Gorky, and many more, along with the folding sheet catalogue, and newspaper clipping about the show inserted.

Good copy considering age. Tanned edges and wear to corners, edges and spine. Some spine chipping.

File under: Victor Brauner Max Ernst Leonora Carrington Jacqueline Lamba Jacques Hérold Wilfredo Lam Joan Miró Hans Bellmer Marcel Jean Maria Martins Yves Tanguy Hans Arp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Dorothea Tanning Frederick Kiesler Alberto Giacometti Hector Hyppolite Serge Brignoni Alexander Calder Bruno Capacci Elizabeth van Damme Jacques Halpern Julio de Diego Enrico Donati Francis Bouvet David Hare Iaroslav Serpan Taro Okamoto Roberto Matta Kay Sage Toyen Frédéric Delanglade Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Jindřich Štyrský Leonard Baskin Jindrich Heisler Jeanne Reynal Isabelle Waldberg Roger Brielle Jean Guerin Isamu Noguchi Gerome Kamrowski Eugenio Granell Francis Picabia Remedios Varo Hans Richter Arshile Gorky Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Maeght Editeur / Paris Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Theory / Essay

Images of Horror and Fantasy
by Gert Schiff

1980, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 159 pages, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Academy Editions / London

$90.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First UK hardcover edition published by Academy Editions in 1980, Images of Horror and Fantasy by art historian Gert Schiff expanded on a major group exhibition guest curated by Schiff at the Bronx Museum in 1977. The resulting publication is a perceptive critical and psychological analyses of a variety of nineteenth-and twentieth-century art that "unfolds simultaneously on the level of historical and social reality and on the level of dreams. Its purpose is to expose some of the principal anxieties of modern man and their resolution in utopian reveries and escapist fantasies."

Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with the works of Alfred Kubin, James Ensor, George Grosz, Paul Thek, Sibylle Ruppert, Henry Fuseli, Paul Delvaux, Nancy Grossman, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Fernand Khnopff, Rudolph von Ripper, Max Klinger, H. R. Giger, Jonah Kinigstein, Edward Keinholz, Jean Delville, Lucas Samaras, Miriam Beerman, Willem de Kooning, Man Ray, Oskar Kokoschka, Salvador Dali, Paolo Soleri, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Georges Rouault, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philip Evergood, William Blake, Giorgio de Chirico, Ivan Albright, Yves Tanguy, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns, Germaine Richier, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Rene Magritte, Illya Repin, Antoine Wiertz, Odilon Redon, Edward Burra, Larry Rivers, George Segal, Thomas Cole, Léon Frédéric, Matthias Grünewald, Rico Lebrun, Bruce Connor, Edvard Munch, and many more.

Gert Schiff (1926 — 1990, b. Oldenburg, Germany) was an art historian, critic, lecturer and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. A specialist in the Romantic movement, particularly the work of Henry Fuseli and William Blake, Mr. Schiff was also very much involved with 20th-century art, organising many major exhibitions around his interests whilst authoring important studies on the arts from his dwellings at the Chelsea Hotel.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Alfred Kubin James Ensor George Grosz Paul Thek Sibylle Ruppert Henry Fuseli Paul Delvaux Nancy Grossman Käthe Kollwitz Max Beckmann Fernand Khnopff Rudolph von Ripper Max Klinger H. R. Giger Jonah Kinigstein Edward Keinholz Jean Delville Lucas Samaras Miriam Beerman Willem de Kooning Man Ray Oskar Kokoschka Salvador Dali Paolo Soleri Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Georges Rouault Otto Dix Pablo Picasso Philip Evergood William Blake Giorgio de Chirico Ivan Albright Yves Tanguy Paul Klee Jasper Johns Germaine Richier Francisco de Goya Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Matisse Max Ernst Francis Bacon Rene Magritte Illya Repin Antoine Wiertz Odilon Redon Edward Burra Larry Rivers George Segal Thomas Cole Léon Frédéric Matthias Grünewald Rico Lebrun Bruce Connor Edvard Munch Academy Editions / London Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Drawing Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Theory / Essay Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Psychoanalysis

19 Surrealists

1967, Japanese
Softcover, 6 page card fold-out w. insert, 23.8 x 23.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Gallery / Tokyo

$100.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Incredibly scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the 1967 exhibition "19 Surrealists" held at Tokyo Gallery, Japan. Fold-out catalogue with insert, illustrated with the exhibited works (along with biographies in Japanese) by Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, Felix Labisse, René Magritte, Man Ray, Andre Masson, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, Taro Okamoto, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Max-Walter Svanberg, Yves Tanguy, Wols.

Very Good with light wear and mild spotting and a couple of pencil notations in Japanese. Preserved in sleeve.

File under: Enrico Baj Hans Bellmer Victor Brauner Salvador Dalí Paul Delvaux Max Ernst Wifredo Lam Felix Labisse Man Ray Roberto Matta Joan Miro Francis Picabia Kurt Schwitters Max-Walter Svanberg Yves Tanguy Wols René Magritte André Masson Tarō Okamoto Tokyo Gallery / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Art Painting Drawing

Surrealist Drawings
by František Šmejkal

1974, Japanese
Hardcover (cloth-bound w. original illustrated card box and dust jacket) 160 pages, 21 x 21.6
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$150.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Stunning boxed first printing of the Japanese edition of "Surrealist Drawings" by František Šmejkal, printed and bound in cloth-covers in Japan in 1973. A beautiful clothbound hardcover folio of drawings by artists affiliated with Surrealism. What makes this lovely collection special is the inclusion of many of the Czech Surrealists, and a generally broad European scope of artists. Czech art historian František Šmejkal has collated a wonderful selection of works on paper by Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský, Wolfgang Paalen, Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Bellmer, Alfred Kubin, Francis Picabia, Jacques Hérold, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Josef Istler, Max Ernst, André Breton, František Muzika, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Richard Oelze, Mikuláš Medek, Joan Miró, Josef Sima, Kurt Seligmann, Odilon Redon, Andre Masson, Max Walter Svanberg, Salvador Dali, Arshile Gorky, Victor Brauner, Rene Magritte, and many more.

Very Good copy in original slipcase and plastic jacket over cloth. Almost Fine, but with corner bumping to top.

File under: André Masson Hans Bellmer Joan Miro Man Ray Max Ernst René Magritte Salvador Dalí Yves Tanguy Toyen Victor Brauner Wifredo Lam Arshile Gorky Giorgio de Chirico Wolfgang Paalen Alfred Kubin Jindřich Štyrský Francis Picabia Max-Walter Svanberg Andre Masson Josef Sima Kurt Seligmann Odilon Redon František Šmejkal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Archive of Dreams: Surrealist Impulses, Networks, and Vision

2024, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$110.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

The book Archive of Dreams is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that will open the Archiv der Avantgarden. Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first surrealist manifesto and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, the volume is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the twentieth century. The idea was for the Bureau to collect dream testimonies in whatever form, not only to preserve and analyse them but also to give active expression to them in artistic processes. The publication shows how the practices of the avantgardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment — and thus ultimately also between the past, the present, and possible futures.

Works and documents from the period before, during, and after the Second World War shed light on the working methods of international artists and the global network they were involved in. They are complemented by diverse reflections on global protest movements and the traumas of war, thus connecting, too, to everyday experiences in a Europe beset by warfare.

File under: Salvador Dalí Max Ernst Marcel Duchamp Hans Bellmer Yves Tanguy Man Ray Unica Zürn Toyen Kurt Seligmann Carolee Schneeman Carolee Schneemann René Magritte Alexander Calder Diego Giacometti Leonora Carrington Egidio Marzona Marion Ackermann Rudolf Fischer Przemysław Strożek Friederike Fast David Wittinghofer Author Erin McClenathan Kristoffer Noheden Sven Spieker Abigail Susik David Wittinghofer Georges Bataille Marcel Duchamp André Breton Guillaume Apollinaire Michel Leiris Louis Aragon Spector Books / Leipzig Surrealism Dada Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

SALE2 NO.35
EROTIK!! ISSUE

1988, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Issue No.35 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.35, the "EROTIK!!" issue features erotic writings and artwork throughout by Hans Bellmer, Dorothea Tanning, André Berg, Pierre Molinier, Max Ernst, Armando Calvelli, articles on vintage stag films, nude French postcards, interspersed with lots of mysterious vintage erotic imagery, bondage illustration, and catalogue/advertisments/clippings of Eric Stanton, Irving Klaw, Jim, John Willie, Bizarre Comix, and much more...

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy, tanning to pages.

File under: Hans Bellmer Dorothea Tanning André Berg Pierre Molinier Max Ernst Armando Calvelli Eric Stanton Irving Klaw John Willie Jim Rieko Matsuura Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Surrealism

Broken Music

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

$280.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dada: Art and Anti-Art
by Hans Richter

1965, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$30.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First 1965 English edition of German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian, Hans Richter's important book of the Dada movement. "Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace" writes Hans Richter, who was associated with Dada from its early days. The noted artist and film-maker records here the history of that boisterous and fantastic movement, from its beginnings in wartime Zurich to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s Dada invited the world to misunderstand it and fostered all kinds of confusion; nearly fifty years later its contradictions still intrigue us.

By skilful quotation from manifestoes and other documents of the time Professor Richter re-creates the events of those turbulent days. Looked at in retrospect Dada's role in the development of modern art seems inevitable, and the creative force of its planned outbursts can now be perceived: Dada led on from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism, and in its turn prepared the way for Surrealism. Dada was enlivened by extravagant, bizarre personalities: Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray. Today the wheel has turned again; the gestures and provocations of the original movement reappear, hardly changed, in such forms as Pop art. The final section discusses this phenomenon.

"Mr.Richter, one of the original adherents of Dada, describes their attitude in a first-rate history, as objective and sober as the laughter was once derisive."—THE TIMES OF LONDON

Very Good copy, light wear to extremities, tanning to covers.

File under: Hans Richter Tristan Tzara Francis Picabia Hans Arp Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Man Ray Raoul Hausmann George Grosz Giorgio de Chirico Marcel Janco Hans Richter Tristan Tzara Louis Aragon Andre Breton André Breton Richard Huelsenbeck Philippe Soupault Harry N. Abrams / New York Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Art 'Pataphysics / Oulipo

Max Ernst

1960, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 106 pages, 26.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Misuzu Shobo / Tokyo

$100.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

First edition of this lovely 1960 hardcover monograph published in Tokyo on the German Surrealist Max Ernst (1891—1976), as part of a Misuzu Shobo series on Modern European and American artists issued for Japanese readers. With accompanying text by Japanese poet, critic and fellow Surrealist artist Shūzō Takiguchi. A prolific and highly original painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, Ernst's various works are surveyed (paintings, collages, and frottages dating upto the late 1950s) herein generously in colour and b/w reproductions. Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada and Surrealism movements.

Very Good copy with some internal blank stock paper tanning. Dust Jacket with some wear and tear to extremities, all preserved in mylar wrap. A lovely copy of this uncommon title.

File under: Max Ernst Shūzō Takiguchi Shūzō Takiguchi Misuzu Shobo / Tokyo Surrealism Dada Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Drawing

MAX ERNST
1983/1984

1983, Japanese / German / English
Softcover, 164 pages, 24 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

Scarce Japanese catalogue on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition that travelled Japan 1983—1984.

With an introduction by German art historian Werner Spies, in German and Japanese, this profusely illustrated book is quite a valuable volume on Ernst as it concentrates its pages on a huge collection of his lithography, frottage, collage, etching, and other graphic works, rather than his more well-known works in painting and sculpture, bringing to the surface many lesser-seen works of the artist. Over 300 colour and black and white reproductions, including biography and bibliography. Texts in Japanese and German, with titles and introduction in English.

Max Ernst (1891—1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Good copy with wear and creasing to corners, general wear and tear to cover extremities. Spine uncreased and tightly bound.

File under: Max Ernst Werner Spies Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada

Künstler in Deutschland 1900-1945
Individualismus und Tradition

1986, German
Softcover, 360 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Edition Cantz / Stuttgart Württenbergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart

$45.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

First 1986 edition of this huge survey of German artists, Künstler in Deutschland 1900-1945. Individualismus und Tradition, published by Edition Cantz and Württenbergischer Kunstverein. Profusely illustrated with the work of Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Dexel, Oskar Schlemmer, Rudolf Belling, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ludwig Meidner, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Franz Radziwill, Christian Schad, Josef Scharl, Otto Pankok, Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Lovis Corinth, Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Hans Hartung, Emil Nolde, Hans Uhlmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Winter, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Otto Mueller, Willi Baumeister, Oskar Kokoschka, Adolf Hölzel, August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee. Texts in German by Tilman Osterwold, Jens Christian Jensen, Andreas Vowinckel, plus biographies and catalogue.

Good copy with wear to cover edges and spine.

File under: Max Ernst Kurt Schwitters László Moholy-Nagy Walter Dexel Oskar Schlemmer Rudolf Belling Wilhelm Lehmbruck Ludwig Meidner Otto Dix George Grosz Franz Radziwill Christian Schad Josef Scharl Otto Pankok Ernst Barlach Käthe Kollwitz Lovis Corinth Max Beckmann Paula Modersohn-Becker Hans Hartung Emil Nolde Hans Uhlmann Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Fritz Winter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Wilhelm Nay Otto Mueller Willi Baumeister Oskar Kokoschka Adolf Hölzel August Macke Franz Marc Alexej Jawlensky Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee Edition Cantz / Stuttgart Württenbergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart Painting Bauhaus Art Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Photography Theory / Essay

Max Ernst
Una settimana di bonta oi sette elementi capitali

1978, Italian / French
Softcover, 230 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mazzotta / Milan

$50.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First 1978 Mazzotta edition of this absolute classic of Surrealist collage by Max Ernst, first published in 1934. If the collage technique has become an art, it owes it to a work like this book and of course to Max Ernst, one of the masters of collage and incomparable Surrealist painter. Western art has always tried to tear apart the straitjackets of the imprisoned body with one hand: but no one has succeeded in this insurrection like Max Ernst in the novel-collages he invented and brought to climax between 1929 and 1934. These are images accompanied by rapturous captions and cropped from the illustrations of serial novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries, full of sensual and innocent girls undermined by dark pupils of Sade, and messieurs in black suits and spats who hide shameful foibles, while in the background "the city full of dreams" by Baudelaire trembles and again "the specter lures the passer-by in broad daylight". A dreamlike staging inherited from the feuilletons, therefore, but which Ernst, with his montage made up of mysterious juxtapositions and obscure cuts, the exaltation of chance and the thrill of analogy, with his slow-motion cinema and his comic strip for adults only, has been able to transform into the banner of the perennial revolt of desire.

Bi-lingual texts (French/Italian) by Jarry, Schwob, Breton, Eluard...
A masterpiece.

Very Good copy some edge wear, ageing.

File under: Max Ernst Marcel Schwob Alfred Jarry Paul Eluard André Breton Mazzotta / Milan Surrealism Drawing Painting Art Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada

Compulsive Beauty
by Hal Foster

1995, English
Softcover, 314 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First 1995 edition of this long out-of-print study by Hal Foster, published The MIT Press and October Books. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism—the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance—in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many traumatic tableaux that point to difficult connections not only between sadism and masochism but also between surrealism and fascism. At this point Compulsive Beauty turns to the social dimension of the surrealist uncanny. First Foster reads the surrealist repertoire of automatons and mannequins as a reflection on the uncanny processes of mechanization and commodification. Then he considers the surrealist use of outmoded images as an attempt to work through the historical repression effected by these same processes. In a brief conclusion he discusses the fate of surrealism today in a world become surrealistic. Compulsive Beauty not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, but also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.

Very Good copy.

File under: Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Alberto Giacometti Hans Bellmer Raoul Ubac Man Ray Brassaï Hal Foster André Breton The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada

1970-1980 : Dal Design Al Post-Design
Edited by Isa Vercelloni

1980, Italian
Hardcover, 50 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan

$80.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

First edition, published in 1980 by Edizioni Condé Nast / Casa Vogue (Milan), of this little known furniture book, edited by Casa Vogue editor Isa Vercelloni, who brought us the 1985 classic “Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue”.

This fantastic hardcover book, the first in Casa Vogue's book library, is dedicated entirely to showcasing furniture by (amongst many other deisgners) Aldo Rossi, Gaetano Pesce, Andrea Branzi, Ettore Sottsass, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Toshiyuki Kita, Achille Castiglioni, Alchimia, Paolo Nava, Antonio Citterio, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, B&B Italia, Cassina, Flos, Poltronova, Vico Magistretti, Artemide, Stilnovo, Mario Bellini, Josef Hoffman, Studio Driade, Poltronova, Carlo Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Eileen Grey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, , Pierre Jeanneret, C&B Italia, Mario Ceroli, Cini Boeri, Arflex, Zanotta, Superstudio, Archizoom, Knoll, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jonathan de Pas, De. Pas + D'urbino + Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gufram, Giani Ruffi, Piero Gilardi, Joe Columbo, Sergio Asti, Hans Hollein...

Scarce, wonderfully compiled Italian title of 1970's-1980's furniture design and its influences.

Very Good copy.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Alessandro Mendini Angelo Mangiarotti Antonio Citterio Archizoom Arflex Artemide Carlo Scarpa Cassina Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charlotte Perriand Cini Boeri De Pas Donato d'Urbino D'Urbino Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Gae Aulenti Gerrit Rietveld Giani Ruffi Gufram Hans Hollein Joe Colombo Jonathan de Pas Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Max Ernst Meret Oppenheim Paolo Lomazzi Paolo Nava Piero Gilardi Pierre Jeanneret Poltronova René Magritte Sergio Asti Stilnovo Studio 65 Studio Driade Superstudio Toshiyuki Kita Vico Magistretti Zanotta B&B Italia Isa Vercelloni Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation

Styles of Living
The Best of Casa Vogue

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 224 pages, 30 x 22.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$200.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First edition, published by Rizzoli in 1985, of this classic interior design book, "Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue"

Making appearances in these rooms: Gae Aulenti, Man Ray, Enzo Mari, Carlo Scarpa, Pablo Picasso, Josef Hoffman, Cinzia Ruggeri, Max Ernst, Wols, Matteo Thun, Ettore Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Lucio Fontana, Eileen Grey, Daniel Buren, Gaetano Pesce, Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Massimo Vignelli, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Tàpies, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alver Aalto.....

"Ever since the end of the Second World War, Italian style, design and decoration have maintained an unprecedented predominance in the Western World. It was in the early 1950s that a great surge of decorative talent welled up in Italy, and this resulted in the 'Italian look' in clothes and in homes - a new standard of chic inventiveness.

The Italian view of interior design has been most enterprisingly expressed in the magazine Casa Vogue, which was founded in 1968 and has consistently been one of the most admired publications of Condé Nast International.

This book, garnered from the many issues of Casa Vogue, has been written and produced under the guidance of Isa Vercellonim who has been its editor ever since its inception. The choice of picture-stories is intended to reflect the unusual and distinctive diversity of the magazine - ranging from traditional decoration to the more advance examples of minimal design, most the most significant of contemporary buildings to the spectacular reconstructions and reconversions of old palazzi and coachhouses, from the 'post modern' to the 'anti-modern' and any other 'moderns' that may have been advocated recently. Italian trends naturally provide the main focus, but Casa Vogue also includes developments in the United States, France, Switzerland - indeed, wherever unusual and meaningful designs are being created."

Very good copy in Good dust-jacket, protected under mylar wrap.

File under: Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Carlo Scarpa Charles Eames Cinzia Ruggeri Daniel Buren Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Frank Lloyd Wright Gae Aulenti Gaetano Pesce Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Massimo Vignelli Matteo Thun Max Ernst Michelangelo Pistoletto Pablo Picasso René Magritte Salvador Dalí Verner Panton Wols Alvar Aalto Rizzoli / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Max Ernst
Gemälde und Graphik 1920-1950

1951, German
Softcover, 98 pages, 27.5 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Self Published / Brühl

$70.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Lovely publication produced in 1951 on the occasion of a special exhibition of Max Ernst held in the Augustusburg Castle, organised by Karl Seibt and the city of Brühl in Germany on the 60th birthday of the artist. Illustrated throughout with many fine examples of Ernst's paintings, collages, frottages, prints and drawings, alongside two essays by Ernst (including "What is Surrealism?"), plus writings on Ernst by fellow Surrealist artists and writers Andre Breton, Nicolas Calas, Hans Arp, and Paul Eluard, amongst others, essay by Lothar Pretzell. All texts in German.

Good-Very Good copy with general wear, tanning.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Max Ernst Andre Breton Nicolas Calas Paul Eluard Lothar Pretzell Self Published / Brühl Art Painting Drawing Surrealism

The Crystal World
by J.G. Ballard

1968, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Panther / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

First 1968 Panther paperback edition of English author J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World, featuring the cover artwork of Max Ernst. A science fiction masterpiece, The Crystal World is regarded as the best of Ballard's "catastrophe novels."

J. G. Ballard’s fourth novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic phenomenon in the jungle that crystallises everything it touches.

Ballard previously used the theme of apocalyptic crystallisation in the 1964 short story "The Illuminated Man" (included in The Terminal Beach), which is also set in the same locations.

Very Good copy of this scarcer edition, with light wear and tanning.

File under: Max Ernst J.G. Ballard Panther / London Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare

Images of Horror and Fantasy
by Gert Schiff

1979, English
Softcover, 159 pages, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Harry N. Abrams / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

Published by Abrams in 1978, Images of Horror and Fantasy by art historian Gert Schiff expanded on a major group exhibition guest curated by Schiff at the Bronx Museum in 1977. The resulting publication is a perceptive critical and psychological analyses of a variety of nineteenth-and twentieth-century art that "unfolds simultaneously on the level of historical and social reality and on the level of dreams. Its purpose is to expose some of the principal anxieties of modern man and their resolution in utopian reveries and escapist fantasies." Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with the works of Alfred Kubin, James Ensor, George Grosz, Paul Thek, Sibylle Ruppert, Henry Fuseli, Paul Delvaux, Nancy Grossman, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Fernand Khnopff, Rudolph von Ripper, Max Klinger, H. R. Giger, Jonah Kinigstein, Edward Keinholz, Jean Delville, Lucas Samaras, Miriam Beerman, Willem de Kooning, Man Ray, Oskar Kokoschka, Salvador Dali, Paolo Soleri, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Georges Rouault, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philip Evergood, William Blake, Giorgio de Chirico, Ivan Albright, Yves Tanguy, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns, Germaine Richier, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Rene Magritte, Illya Repin, Antoine Wiertz, Odilon Redon, Edward Burra, Larry Rivers, George Segal, Thomas Cole, Léon Frédéric, Matthias Grünewald, Rico Lebrun, Bruce Connor, Edvard Munch, and many more.

Gert Schiff (1926 — 1990, b. Oldenburg, Germany) was an art historian, critic, lecturer and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. A specialist in the Romantic movement, particularly the work of Henry Fuseli and William Blake, Mr. Schiff was also very much involved with 20th-century art, organising many major exhibitions around his interests whilst authoring important studies on the arts from his dwellings at the Chelsea Hotel.

Very Good copy.

File under: Alfred Kubin James Ensor George Grosz Paul Thek Nancy Grossman Käthe Kollwitz Max Beckmann Fernand Khnopff Rudolph von Ripper Max Klinger Jonah Kinigstein Edward Keinholz Lucas Samaras Miriam Beerman Willem de Kooning Man Ray Oskar Kokoschka Salvador Dali Georges Rouault Otto Dix Pablo Picasso William Blake Giorgio de Chirico Ivan Albright Yves Tanguy Paul Klee Jasper Johns Germaine Richier Francisco de Goya Max Ernst Francis Bacon Sibylle Ruppert Rico Lebrun Henry Fuseli Bruce Connor Edvard Munch Paul Delvaux Jean Delville Paolo Soleri Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Philip Evergood Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri Matisse Rene Magritte Illya Repin Antoine Wiertz Odilon Redon Edward Burra Larry Rivers George Segal Thomas Cole Léon Frédéric Matthias Grünewald Gert Schiff Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Surrealism Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Psychoanalysis

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

$80.00 - In stock -

(more...)

(...less)

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

Surrealist Drawings
by František Šmejkal

1978, English
Hardcover (clothbound w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 24.5 x 32 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Octopus / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

English edition of the great "Surrealist Drawings", edited by František Šmejkal, designed and printed in Czechoslovakia. A beautiful clothbound hardcover folio of drawings by artists affiliated with Surrealism. What makes this lovely collection special is the inclusion of many of the Czech Surrealists, and a generally broad European scope of artists. Czech art historian František Šmejkal has collated a wonderful selection of works on paper by Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský, Wolfgang Paalen, Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Bellmer, Alfred Kubin, Francis Picabia, Jacques Hérold, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Josef Istler, Max Ernst, André Breton, František Muzika, Paul Delvaux, Wilfredo Lam, Richard Oelze, Mikuláš Medek, Joan Miró, Josef Sima, Kurt Seligmann, Odilon Redon, Andre Masson, Max Walter Svanberg, Salvador Dali, Arshile Gorky, Victor Brauner, Rene Magritte, and many more.

Highly recommended.
Very Good copy with light edge wear. Very Good dust jacket.

File under: Toyen Jindřich Štyrský André Masson Hans Bellmer Arshile Gorky Victor Brauner Salvador Dalí Paul Delvaux Wilfredo Lam Max Ernst Yves Tanguy Wolfgang Paalen Giorgio de Chirico Alfred Kubin Max-Walter Svanberg Odilon Redon Joan Miró Josef Sima René Magritte Jacques Hérold Francis Picabia Man Ray Richard Oelze Kurt Seligmann František Muzika Mikuláš Medek Josef Istler František Šmejkal Octopus / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Painting Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

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

(more...)

(...less)

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

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

(more...)

(...less)

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

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

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

$59.00 - Out of stock

(more...)

(...less)

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

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

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

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